Will I actually be able to use their phone number for verification, or will it be rejected everywhere? I couldn't even use my (primary, stable, long-term) Googl

Will I actually be able to use their phone number for verification, or will it be rejected everywhere? I couldn't even use my (primary, stable, long-term) Google Voice phone number to sign up for ChatGPT because is was categorized as a VoIP number and therefore distrusted. A primary benefit of the phone verification systems is to force bad actors to burn a costly identifier in order to create a distinct account. VoIP numbers are available quite cheaply or even free from a number of providers. Even prepaid GSM-connected cell phone numbers are sometimes distrusted (see Blizzard's Overwatch 2 phone verification scandal). Many people also do not realize how much information is available from just a phone number from data brokers. Companies can get the associated name, billing address, and sometimes even near-real-time location data (see the 2017 scandal over Verizon and AT&T selling this).