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Discord now requiring phone number to login? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems like discord is asking people to verify their accounts with phone numbers nowadays. I guess I won't be using it anymore? :🤷

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

From what I understand, new signups aren’t allowed without a phone number now. As far as what makes them claim that and ask, as with other proprietary services, who knows? It could be a legitimate security reason, or it could be that they just made up some nonsense because they want to collect more data. Exactly like Facebook, yeah. I stopped using Facebook when they insisted I had to send them my driver’s license to sign in.

There’s no way to bypass phone verificiation, but many people use various services to get a temporary fake number and verify with that.