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Hello all, recently wanted to signup for temporary permanent legit emailmid in gmail. It was asking me Phone number in process, i tried to use multiple numbers from regular online resources ( more than 30) but nothing worked. I don't want to give my personal phone number in real life to someone's unless Its I want to.

How do I sign up services where phone number is required ? Is there throw away phone number I can get ? Is there way to skip it all together ( not on Gmail for sure ) Your help be appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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[–] Gooey0210 3 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could always get a PAYG SIM as a secondary number.

This is what I do. It costs me 50 cents every few months to keep alive. I only loaded it with $5 of credit, so I can ditch the SIM and get a new one at any time. The provider I went with didn't ask for any personal details and only wanted payment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What provider? And where did you buy the SIM?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

My country is probably different to yours. But I just visited their store. You can order them online from their stores too.

PAYG is a little confusing these days because every network provider is advertising it as if it's a pre-paid monthly plan. Ie. Top up $10 every month to get x bundle. But they're just the same as back in the day; they just massively emphasize the deals you can get when you top up every month because they want as much money as possible.

If you read their terms and conditions, they state that the regular price for a text, a call, a MB of data is y when you haven't qualified for a bundle. Don't get me wrong, the out of bundle prices are shockingly expensive but if like me, you want it to mainly receive and very rarely send it's not that bad at all.

I use my PAYG SIM as a secondary SIM. It would be too expensive to use as my main SIM. For the same allowance, the best PAYG bundle I could find was twice the price as my regular monthly contract.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Mozilla relay might work ~~https://relay.firefox.com/#pricing~~ Ladrius

or mysudo ~~https://mysudo.com/mysudo-plans/~~ bl4kers

also may i ask what's stopping you from using proton mail as the temporary/permanent legit mail?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I don't recommend MySudo because it requires a Google account to subscribe

[–] Ladrius 2 points 10 months ago

Relay doesn't. Got it for this purpose and it wasn't accepted anywhere needing a number for verification.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Sometimes if you go to a school, library, cafe, etc you might be able to create those accounts without phone number. This also might be because you're on VPN. I created a new google account at school for whatever reason. Haven't had the need to use it yet but it's there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could just buy a prepaid throwaway SIM. Pretty sure those are super cheap.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately doing so anonymously is not an option for many countries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ah i had no idea, that sucks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Heard that you can create google accounts without phone numbers with an old android 5 phone. But have not verified it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It is possible to create Google accounts without phone number on Android. I can confirm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tried on an Android VM in a browser, but stopped at the phone number requirement. So does it need to be in a Google app specifically?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It needs to be a real android not a VM or emulator. Google will detect the device through play services. you can easily create 4-5 accounts without the numbers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ive been able to create two on grapheneOS when opening up play store in separate profiles and clicking create account on the log in screen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Any idea on android version restrictions?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

https://kycnot.me/search?q=sms&type=

There are providers that sell sms activation access, full cloud phone numbers, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's possible to skip on gmail if you create the account with a pixel without a simcard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Don't sign up. Or better don't be anonymous.