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Tired of lately getting blocked to create accounts without a phone number (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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As the tittle sais, i was trying to create an instagram account and it is not possible without a phone number. Same with discord. Obviously i dont want to provide mine. Any working solutions to bypass this? not looking for alternative private service, i already use them.

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[–] trippingonthewire@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I find that interesting, as there should be ways to only use email.

I'd say your IP or DNS is freaking them out. Sometimes when you have really good opsec on a browser, they can tell and will ask for weird shit like that.

I'd use a different browser, like maybe download Brave or Chromium or Librewolf (leave it out of the box) specifically for this stuff, assuming you use FireFox.

You can also download 3rd party clients for Facebook on Android, Insta is kinda a lost cause tho.

Edit: It's not on F-Droid, you gotta hop on Github, but there is a client for Discord known as Aliucord on Android.