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How to sign up services without phone number? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Alborlin@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Hello all, recently wanted to signup for temporary permanent legit emailmid in gmail. It was asking me Phone number in process, i tried to use multiple numbers from regular online resources ( more than 30) but nothing worked. I don't want to give my personal phone number in real life to someone's unless Its I want to.

How do I sign up services where phone number is required ? Is there throw away phone number I can get ? Is there way to skip it all together ( not on Gmail for sure ) Your help be appreciated.

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[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] darkmatternoodlecow@programming.dev 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't use services that require you to enter a phone number if you are not comfortable with the providers of those services having your phone number. Do without.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use a 'burner' number with a prepaid provider that I pay $6 a month for, for all my "needs your phone number" bullshit. It's not a true burner since I'm holding it long-term, but it's a secondary number that I don't use unless I get a call or message on that number. Keeps my main/'real' number safe, from both data breaches and the weird manager at the pizza place or whatever.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 8 points 1 year ago

If you can get away with a non North American number, most countries will give you a SIM for free or next to nothing and you pay only once for pre-paid service, no monthly fee.

[–] highfiveconnoisseur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What service do you use? Been thinking about doing the same sort of thing.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tello. $5 for baseline call service and minutes, unlimited text. $1 for some backup data if my primary carrier doesn't have service in an area. Runs on the t-mo network. Deprioritized to qci7 so data might not be reliable in areas where they have over-subscribed their towers, but that's only for data, so it's a footnote.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$6 a month is much more than my actual phone plan holy shit, that is a shit ton of money for such a subscription.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...its a full cell phone plan?

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, my full plan with more internet and minutes than I need is around $4. Paying $6 for something you don't even fully use is a ripoff.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You can technically get that here in the states, but it's veeeery limited: Redpocket, and a couple of by-the-minute recharge plans afaik. This $6 plan only supplies 300 minutes, and 1gb of data. The typical rate for most people's service is $50-$60 here ('unlimited* data, messages, and minutes'), with my main line costing $85 plus bs fees. $6 as a backup/secondary could be a rounding error.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could always get a PAYG SIM as a secondary number.

This is what I do. It costs me 50 cents every few months to keep alive. I only loaded it with $5 of credit, so I can ditch the SIM and get a new one at any time. The provider I went with didn't ask for any personal details and only wanted payment.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What provider? And where did you buy the SIM?

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

My country is probably different to yours. But I just visited their store. You can order them online from their stores too.

PAYG is a little confusing these days because every network provider is advertising it as if it's a pre-paid monthly plan. Ie. Top up $10 every month to get x bundle. But they're just the same as back in the day; they just massively emphasize the deals you can get when you top up every month because they want as much money as possible.

If you read their terms and conditions, they state that the regular price for a text, a call, a MB of data is y when you haven't qualified for a bundle. Don't get me wrong, the out of bundle prices are shockingly expensive but if like me, you want it to mainly receive and very rarely send it's not that bad at all.

I use my PAYG SIM as a secondary SIM. It would be too expensive to use as my main SIM. For the same allowance, the best PAYG bundle I could find was twice the price as my regular monthly contract.

[–] Akip@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Mozilla relay might work ~~https://relay.firefox.com/#pricing~~ Ladrius

or mysudo ~~https://mysudo.com/mysudo-plans/~~ bl4kers

also may i ask what's stopping you from using proton mail as the temporary/permanent legit mail?

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I don't recommend MySudo because it requires a Google account to subscribe

[–] Ladrius@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Relay doesn't. Got it for this purpose and it wasn't accepted anywhere needing a number for verification.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Sometimes if you go to a school, library, cafe, etc you might be able to create those accounts without phone number. This also might be because you're on VPN. I created a new google account at school for whatever reason. Haven't had the need to use it yet but it's there.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

You could just buy a prepaid throwaway SIM. Pretty sure those are super cheap.

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Heard that you can create google accounts without phone numbers with an old android 5 phone. But have not verified it

[–] ris@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

It's possible to skip on gmail if you create the account with a pixel without a simcard.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago

https://kycnot.me/search?q=sms&type=

There are providers that sell sms activation access, full cloud phone numbers, etc.

[–] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Don't sign up. Or better don't be anonymous.