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What's the best way to circumvent phone number verification ? My burner YouTube account, which has nothing unsavory on it, has been marked for phone number verification or else I can't login at all.
Of course I'm not giving them my real phone number. What the best way to fake this?
There are paid services that offer phone number masking such as Firefox Relay
I tried VoIP addresses and got the message "we can't use that number". Is Firefox relay immune to that?
get a burner sim. pay cash.
Impossible in some countries, like Germany with mandatory ID validaion. Luckily, our Pirate Party leader, a telecommunications expert, blocked this proposal here.
But using the sim will identify location and IMEI. Anyway that's quite expensive, like 10$ per account ? Ouch !
There are no ways to beat this. They want your real number. That's the point.
There had to way to defeat the pots system, it's an antique, not a security system