Comment on Sign up on services without phone number? Is it possible?
Cinner@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You can get an eSIM pretty cheap, or buy individual activation phones from truverifi and similar sites. But it’s like $30/mo if you want a private number. Just to activate services it’s a dollar or two depending on the services.
Just make sure you remove it as a security code phone # after you create the account.
Alborlin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thanks for reply .In don’t want to be stuck with a temporary phone at all. It will be just to sign up and that’s all. I am not bound tonany country for signup , I can be any country in world as you said a phone number is a phone number. Can you let me know details?
FelipeFelop@discuss.online 9 months ago
Generally, the reasons for a phone number are:
Account recovery 2FA
If you don’t want to use your number then consider a pre-pay sim. Depending what country you are in this will cost pennies per year.
I would suggest something like ProtonMail or most paid email services won’t require a number.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Protoail doesn’t require phone numbers.