Do phone number requirements for account sign-ups effectively deter/mitigate spam?
Do phone number requirements for account sign-ups effectively deter/mitigate spam?
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For Americans, yes... but everywhere else in the world phone numbers are cheap as dirt. When I was overseas in Spain my local number cost me 3 euros/month
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They are cheap as dirt in the US too if you get a burner phone.
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Really. Can you get a burner phone for anything close to $3/mo?
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There was a service that only charged if the phone was used that day. A family member of mine would turn on their phone once a month, check messages, make a few calls, and then turn the phone off until the next month. I think they were paying about $2 a month.
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This is interesting. Do you know the company name and/or have a link?
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Not a clue. They got it from inside of one of the big box stores or grocery stores, so I guess from one of those little kiosks they sometimes have.
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That exact price with a new phone? No.
Like $10 a month or less by reusing phone hardware with new Sim cards to use occasionally for sms verifications? Yes.
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You don't get the visceral experience of snapping the phone in half that way.
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Not exactly an endorsement. I had unlimited calls, texts and 20GB of 4G data for less than 10 dollars for a few years until the recent price hike every company decided they wanted a slice of. Even then, it came out at about 11 bucks. North American phone packages are a joke with all the oligopoly BS going on.
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There's a service that gives you a dedicated Ukrainian number to receive texts at an email address for $15/year.
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