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How do they uniquely identify individual end users? In other words, is anything stopping me from creating a new account for each device I want to unlock?

• Mindwipe 2y ago
  They verify by phone number.
  • xmodem 2y ago
    Right. So the unlock cost is now the cost of a burner SIM at the convenience store, and a bunch of hassle.
    • Mindwipe 2y ago
      Burner SIMs are not as easy to come by in China, which is what they care about.
• yonatan8070 2y ago
  You need to sign in with a Xiaomi account to unlock devices, presumably they have similar spam protection to other big companies, IP addresses, device fingerprinting, etc.. So if you unlock a device from account A, then account B tries to unlock a device from the same computer/IP address, you'd be caught. Given the amount of users who actually bother to unlock their bootloader, I doubt you'd need more sophisticated duplicate account detection