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.

  • dmonzel@lemm.ee
    74·
    11 months ago

    Have you tried Firefox Relay? They have a paid tier that gives you a phone number and unlimited email masks. Yes, you have to provide a number, and yes you have to pay, but you wouldn’t be giving Meta or Discord your contact info.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    52·
    11 months ago

    I tried making an IG account a couple years ago, and they wanted me to send them a selfie with me holding up my ID. FOH with that shit lol.

    • Overzeetop@beehaw.org
      6·
      11 months ago

      A second sim is the only options for some. Either ChatGPT or one of those requires a real-world mobile number. Anything on a VoIP is blacklisted. I literally can’t sign up for it or a couple other oddball services (like the Dunkin’ app*) because I refuse to divulge my carrier number to anyone but my family and 2-3 close friends. I have a (former) mobile number and two former landline numbers on VoIP that are my real, active numbers but some services simply refuse to use them.

      * I’d use my freebie backup sim for registration, but many use that # as their required+sole 2FA “security“ so signing up with it is useless as I’d have to use that phone every time I interacted. Maybe it’s time to look into eSIMs.

  • reboot6675@sopuli.xyz
    22·
    11 months ago

    Damn, is it really like that now? I created my accounts for IG, Google, Discord, years ago and without a number. I refuse to provide it when they ask now and never had an issue.

      • nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
        1·
        11 months ago

        Same here, even worst if they detect you are using a VPN, they tag the account directly. This is the main issue in all services nowadays

    • Rose@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 months ago

      Discord can outright block you from using it if it decides to ask to connect a phone number post-registration.

        • Rose@lemmy.world
          5·
          11 months ago

          I didn’t say they always do it. I said they can, and they do sometimes. Happened to a close friend of mine after she logged in via Ripcord, though it may be unrelated.

              • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
                2·
                11 months ago

                And many didn’t, including myself. Never did anything that violates their terms before, but one day after I started trying out alternative clients, access to my account got terminated.

                That was two years ago though, I’ve heard they’re a bit less strict now.

  • Extras@lemmy.today
    17·
    11 months ago

    If in the US, Prepaid sim with fake info. Mint’s trial sim gives you 7 days iirc for 2$ Edit: thought it was obvious but just to be clear, setup another form of 2fa after, like totp

  • Hairy_MacBoon@monero.townEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    You can create an instagram account with Tor for example, but it’s extremely difficult. First try creating and Facebook account with their onion address. If not possible, try with the clearnet one. Then login to insta with that FB account. Your account might get restricted and you have to wait for a few months to lift it. You can also appeal to them.

    • neutron@thelemmy.club
      1·
      11 months ago

      The acc is more likely to be flagged the more ‘generic’ your fingerprint is. Accounts made using Mullvad Browser (Torbrowser without Tor network) on VPN was insta-flagged and disabled. When I did it from the official ‘lite’ app using a burner android phone, it went fine for weeks.

  • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    Just yesterday wanted to create a new Gitlab.com account to add an issue to a project, the stupid thing not only required an email and a phone number, the bastards wanted a credit card

    Just closed the site and went away instead. How is this considered okay to open a damn free account?

  • root@aussie.zoneEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    I think it was from one of the many communities here that I found out about juicysms.com

    Haven’t had the need to use their services yet but they look legit.

  • trippingonthewire@lemmy.ml
    4·
    11 months 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.

  • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Unless you in an area that requires an ID to purchase prepaid SIM cards you could go that route. The issue would be when you need to log back into an account, it gets flagged, and you need to reuse that number for verification purposes.

  • ngn@lemy.lolEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    just dont use those services? even if you find a way to bypass this, you wont get anything out of it, they will still collect all of your data such as your location, device information etc.

  • jack@monero.town
    2·
    11 months ago

    You want privacy and also use instagram and discord? Not even considering to switch? I guess you are mentally impaired in some way

  • icedterminal@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Google Voice or Firefox Relay if sign up is insisting.

    Also, after you create a Discord account, you can remove the number visiting account details.