So many great comments here, from thinking people who often struggle with the same thing. I have my own story with its ups and downs.

My view of privacy these days for the most part is of owning my data. If my information is on my own server/devices and off the cloud then I have it private for the most part.

This can sound contradictory at times, for example: Signal is not private to me because my chats and data is still only available through their app and only their app, and a plain text file ilcan be more private if only stored locally. For the most part though, this model works and allows me to think id something is intended to be private or public.

I see, thanks! Even if it doesn’t work, it shows what it’s blocking based on an open source list of people updating it constantly. This is good.

There are places that embrace the old. For instance, I discovered micro.blog not too long and and I’m loving it. Not to mention the federation and all of their instances (micro.blog works with mastodon)

Hi @k_o_t@lemmy.ml ,

Just wanted to point out that even though Google allows for the phone number to be posted to these numbers as verification, it doesn’t seem to work. This is based on what I tried today.

I tried to get another Google Voice number. I got a verification code sent to one of these numbers. I put the verification number back to the prompt from Google Voice. I didn’t get an error message or any comments, but then I saw in the account that I do not, in fact, have a Google Voice number; instead, it asked me to go ahead and get a number with Google Voice as if I haven’t done it.

After repeated attempts with no success and reading up in Google Voice forms, it seems Google Voice does filter numbers that are not listed with the cell phone companies. I’m not sure how that works but that means that if a number is not with a carrier somewhere, then it won’t work. This pretty much means the only way to get this done is to get a second line.

I wonder if you heard anything else.

Thank you. I will do more checking around, you gave me some good tools today :)

I tried for FB, and it says the number was already used. I will keep trying though, I think between getting a new number eventually and/or finding a service that doesn’t track that as much (if I can’t do FB, I can do Google Voice, and then through that FB, etc.) I might find something. This service by far is better from what I found so far.

so the CLI tool is the same as the website. The numbers it gives me are still 2-3 months old and were used. This tool is still much better than what I saw, but I guess I need someone more resent for popular things like Google accounts etc…

I just tried upmasked, looks promising, the only issue is that the numbers are old and were already use for verification they have a CLI tool, I’m downloading and go ing to play with it right now

I live in a big city in the US, and there are ATM for bitcoin, but they seem shady and the comments don’t look too reassuring. Also, I believe I need to set an account first? Yes, I only want to create accounts (Google and Facebook, possibly Twitter but I think if you have one of the two you don’t need a phone for that). Then there’s Signal which I also need a number for, and I think for time being I need to keep having it.

This is off-topic of my first post so I’ll post again. Sounds like you know what you’re talking about or at least have some experience, thanks for that.

Interesting. Do you know for sure Google account or Facebook will work with them?

How would you get monero or bitboin without connecting a bank account / debit card?