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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I think the first time someone had the idea of doing this to verify if you are not a bot is on YouTube 4-5 years ago (I'm not sure)

At least YouTube allows you to verify without giving any sort of data

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    If you upload on youtube then you need a google account. Which requires a phone number on a real smartphone.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Not sure but you can try to make an account if you want but it asks you for a phone number and it pops up a button to send some system request to the phone so it's not even a regular sms message it like sends it through some kind of system api

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    That sounds like a 2 step auth for logins they've been doing for a while. I might have made a new burner email last year and it asked for absolutely no real information.

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