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You could suck it up and do the phone number verification, it usually costs around $5 for a phone number. Or you could go through the android phone sign-up pro
by megagpt2 1mo ago
You could suck it up and do the phone number verification, it usually costs around $5 for a phone number.
Or you could go through the android phone sign-up process which doesn't require one. Buy a cheap android phone and keep resetting it and making a new account each time.
Or you could buy an account on the grey web from someone who already did this. Should be under $2.
If you are really into this you could become a phone company and own a whole block of phone numbers.
- ranger_danger 1mo agoThe whole point of avoiding the verification in my case is for privacy reasons... I don't want google or anyone else tracking what I do through the use of an account. > Or you could go through the android phone sign-up process which doesn't require one This is worse IMO because now the number is associated with that device forever. And unless I'm willing to risk my account to compromise from a future owner of the same number OR device, I must now keep both... forever. > grey web I don't want to give them my info either, nor have my account associated with sketchy individuals. > you could become a phone company I do own DID blocks but this is unhelpful because google's verification specifically requires SMS over real mobile numbers, and I'm not interested in becoming an MVNO or cellular carrier.
- megagpt2 1mo agoBad news - Google doesn't need an account to track your app downloadsm Perhaps you'd be more interested in creating a website that downloads all the apps from the play store using burner accounts and makes them easily anonymously accessible.
- ranger_danger 1mo agoGrapheneOS is not sending app downloads to Google that happen outside of Google's apps, which I don't use. And there are other ways to download APKs from the Play Store; EFF even makes their own tool for it, and there are third-party archive sites and alternative non-Google app stores as well.
- Markoff 1mo agobtw. you can get prepaid physical SIM cards in Czechia for free send by mailbox, you just need some available mailbox wheere you can pick it up, like put Donald Duck sticker on your mailbox and address it to Donald Duck I used android sign up process to create my other dummy account I use in TV only for smarttube and app updates, that seems like great option if it still works