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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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I disagree. Discord asked for my phone number when I tried to sign up, probably because I used a throwaway mail address and it detected that. No thanks.
Yeah ive has problems in discord rooms that require this cuz i refuse to give them my phone and they're good at catching the fake numbers from the Internet i tried to pass off. I wonder if it'd work if i tried some alphabet mafia phone numbers?
Discord server owners can choose to have their members require account verification before joining as an anti-bot measure.
For what it's worth, I've had my discord account for like 8 years at this point and have never received a text from them. I guess they might have sold it off somewhere but i get more political spam then anything else lol
The phone number requirement is a recent change I believe to deter people from creating multiple accounts, so any old timers probably didn't have to use a phone number to sign up.
I didn't comment on the requirement or not, I just know I added my number long ago and have had my account for 8 years