i made a twitter account and it ended up asking for phone number and i sent a support ticket saying i have no phone number and they let my account work again
gmail wouldnt let you log in without a phone number?
i have an acct i cant get access to because i lost the phone associated with it, but when they ask for some other 2FA shit like a phone number i just skip
although when you make a new account the homosexuals do force you to add a phone number (you used to be able to get around it by making a new account on your phone, not sure if it still works)
How does google plan to verify that you are the owner of the account they are preventing you from accessing?
It seems like an obvious catch-22 they can pull >don't put phone number on account >use account for years without problems >magically one day it requires a phone number to log in >refuse >contact google support (does this even exist?) from completely unrelated email address >looks just like a social engineering attempt on their end >data stolen
I think from their point of view they just see losing some people over it as not even rising to the level of collateral damage. Very few people will either not have or refuse to give a phone number, and since their whole business model is spying on you and phone numbers are a powerful tool to do that with (people change them very infrequently and typically a phone number equates to one person, it's a stable identifier) they likely just don't care.
Absolutely, I agree they do not care.
But operating on the thought experiment that they did,
I don't see what kind of possible information you could ever provide them as to prove the account belongs to you, communicating with them through a second account with no connection to the first.
Unless the account was used for real-life correspondence and you provided them government ID and a tissue sample taken from your prostate, which god knows it'll probably come to at some point.
Anyway, my point was that if they just arbitrarily decide to make an account now require a phone number, their expectation isn't "the cattle will obey", it's "we don't want to provide service for this customer any longer" (where "customer" is one of a hundred million other nameless accounts that also had the flag flipped at the time). They have no workflow to unlock an account that refuses to provide secondary verification.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>it's "we don't want to provide service for this customer any longer"
probably, actually, I'm sure they have metrics about what kind of accounts bring them the most ad revenue and I'd be unsurprised if they either didn't give a crap about, or actively tried to get rid of, the lowest tier of those.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>it's "we don't want to provide service for this customer any longer"
probably, actually, I'm sure they have metrics about what kind of accounts bring them the most ad revenue and I'd be unsurprised if they either didn't give a crap about, or actively tried to get rid of, the lowest tier of those.
Remember this is a happening from the company that had the motto of "don't be evil".
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
"had", past tense. They explicitly disavowed it a few years ago, which provoked some snark from the commentariat but little else, since anyone paying attention had realized they were evil many years before that.
I read an article once arguing that Google became evil no later than 2003, that being the year AdWords and AdSense (I think) launched. Arguably if your business model is selling advertising you have to either be evil or go bankrupt.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>communicating with them through a second account with no connection to the first.
You make this sound like an impossible task but I got my last.fm account back after I lost control of the email address I used to sign up, I just emailed them telling them my old email address from my new one and I don't remember ever giving them my DOB so who knows if that was even neccesssary, they'll just take your word for it.
Phone number requirement is usually there to scare off low-iq spammers. Average NEET or streetshitter can make dozens of email accounts in a day but getting a phone number (either by buying a sim card or one of those cheap disposable phone numbers) will always cost money, which is enough to demotivate most of them. Regardless, there are services offering you disposable phone numbers to get around that for like 0.3 USD and most of them even support anonymous payment methods (monero, gift cards, webmoney etc.).
i made a twitter account and it ended up asking for phone number and i sent a support ticket saying i have no phone number and they let my account work again
I did the same thing with my gmail account a few years ago and they told me to go fuck myself.
Wound up losing everything connected to it.
gmail wouldnt let you log in without a phone number?
i have an acct i cant get access to because i lost the phone associated with it, but when they ask for some other 2FA shit like a phone number i just skip
although when you make a new account the homosexuals do force you to add a phone number (you used to be able to get around it by making a new account on your phone, not sure if it still works)
>but when they ask for some other 2FA shit like a phone number on my other accounts i just skip*
worded that wrong
How does google plan to verify that you are the owner of the account they are preventing you from accessing?
It seems like an obvious catch-22 they can pull
>don't put phone number on account
>use account for years without problems
>magically one day it requires a phone number to log in
>refuse
>contact google support (does this even exist?) from completely unrelated email address
>looks just like a social engineering attempt on their end
>data stolen
I think from their point of view they just see losing some people over it as not even rising to the level of collateral damage. Very few people will either not have or refuse to give a phone number, and since their whole business model is spying on you and phone numbers are a powerful tool to do that with (people change them very infrequently and typically a phone number equates to one person, it's a stable identifier) they likely just don't care.
Absolutely, I agree they do not care.
But operating on the thought experiment that they did,
I don't see what kind of possible information you could ever provide them as to prove the account belongs to you, communicating with them through a second account with no connection to the first.
Unless the account was used for real-life correspondence and you provided them government ID and a tissue sample taken from your prostate, which god knows it'll probably come to at some point.
Anyway, my point was that if they just arbitrarily decide to make an account now require a phone number, their expectation isn't "the cattle will obey", it's "we don't want to provide service for this customer any longer" (where "customer" is one of a hundred million other nameless accounts that also had the flag flipped at the time). They have no workflow to unlock an account that refuses to provide secondary verification.
>it's "we don't want to provide service for this customer any longer"
probably, actually, I'm sure they have metrics about what kind of accounts bring them the most ad revenue and I'd be unsurprised if they either didn't give a crap about, or actively tried to get rid of, the lowest tier of those.
Remember this is a happening from the company that had the motto of "don't be evil".
"had", past tense. They explicitly disavowed it a few years ago, which provoked some snark from the commentariat but little else, since anyone paying attention had realized they were evil many years before that.
I read an article once arguing that Google became evil no later than 2003, that being the year AdWords and AdSense (I think) launched. Arguably if your business model is selling advertising you have to either be evil or go bankrupt.
>communicating with them through a second account with no connection to the first.
You make this sound like an impossible task but I got my last.fm account back after I lost control of the email address I used to sign up, I just emailed them telling them my old email address from my new one and I don't remember ever giving them my DOB so who knows if that was even neccesssary, they'll just take your word for it.
name and shame the app
Upwork
Just use qalc
OP here;
ended up using 5sim. Costs 5 cents per number/verification and it just werks
why not free ones lmao? Why did you even pay 5 cent
So many free ones and you still pay
pff, doesnt matter, normies and retards are gona retard.
We need to verify you are human so please let us send you a message in an easy-to-deploy-in-a-botnet device
Phone number requirement is usually there to scare off low-iq spammers. Average NEET or streetshitter can make dozens of email accounts in a day but getting a phone number (either by buying a sim card or one of those cheap disposable phone numbers) will always cost money, which is enough to demotivate most of them. Regardless, there are services offering you disposable phone numbers to get around that for like 0.3 USD and most of them even support anonymous payment methods (monero, gift cards, webmoney etc.).