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Discord now requiring phone number to login?
(lemmy.world)
Seems like discord is asking people to verify their accounts with phone numbers nowadays. I guess I won't be using it anymore? :🤷
They think you might be a criminal, literally. Discord has a big problem with people conducting illegal activities on their service (buying, selling, and providing support for cheats, black hat hacker communities, harassment and stalking, etc. The list is pretty long)
Something about your account + connection makes you look very similar to people they know to have done these things. And discord decided that the risk of having these things on their platform is a greater threat to their business than the risk of people like you quitting the platform.
They do this so that if regulators, law enforcement, or one of their business partners comes to them with evidence that you're using discord to do bad shit, they can help track down the real person behind the account.
Maybe because I use librewolf with most browser fingerprinting and tracking disabled? I normally got like 3 to 5 captchas before I could login to discord.
Oh yeah, it's definitely that. For sure. Your behavior is more similar to the < 0.1% of users who do bad shit than the 99.9% who simply install the app and play games or chat with friends. You are a casualty of war, so to speak. Honestly, I don't blame discord, they have to secure their platform. I blame the shitheads who make this crap necessary by trying to hide their illegal activity using the same methods as the people like yourself who just want privacy