Fixing our broken internet

Posted Oct 11, 2020 22:55 UTC (Sun) by nrdxp (guest, #142443)
In reply to: Fixing our broken internet by rzaa
Parent article: Fixing our broken internet

I’ve never given them my phone number and have had an account since first release...

Fixing our broken internet

Posted Oct 22, 2020 2:16 UTC (Thu) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link] (2 responses)

A lot of places used to let you register an account without a phone number, and services that now require it for all new accounts (like twitter and gmail) have grandfathered in accounts that don't YET have a phone number, until the first hiccup where it puts up a modal "add a phone number to your account" dialog you can't exit from every time you try to use the service, and then your account is bricked unless you comply.

Fixing our broken internet

Posted Oct 26, 2020 9:51 UTC (Mon) by rzaa (guest, #130641) [Link] (1 responses)

For google you can easily create new acc without number, but for this you will need one phone device (in may case it was old Samsung).

1. Factory reset
2. Create new google acc
3. Chose "I don't have phone number"
4. You have one acc
5. Goto 1 to create new acc

Fixing our broken internet

Posted Nov 17, 2020 21:10 UTC (Tue) by bostjan (guest, #118664) [Link]

AFAIK, this only works in certain countries (IIRC in Slovenia the phone number is mandatory, unlike in Germany where it isn't).