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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Gush@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Hi, there's this situation i currently have with discord support, that they refuse to delete my phone number from my account. Basically every time i try to manually remove it, my account gets locked up until i add another phone number in order to continue accessing the service, "for security reasons" with no option for email verification (of course).

I contacted the support team asking for clarifications and if they could remove the phone number and, in short, they said that they couldn't do that since my account was flagged somehow, and that they won't remove the phone verification...

(their email)

Now, what are your opinions about this? Should i use a free voip number site in order to replace my real phone number with the fake one? My concern is that i don't know who could own that number so i don't know if it's safe to trust it, and i'm not willing to spend any money for this

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[-] Gush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

don't they have monthly fees?

[-] v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think Google offers free phone numbers through Google Voice. As far as I know, you can port in numbers too, so if you really wanted, you could get an inexpensive prepaid plan then transfer it to Google. (but I doubt there will be a problem using the Google Voice number that is assigned for free)

[-] olorin99@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago

You can get prepaid sims which don't renew automatically. You can also find carrier's that allow you to cancel whenever no extra charge.

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