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by vvoid
1560 days ago
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I share your concerns. I created a dedicated-purpose Microsoft account by following Mojang's official migration link. The process went smoothly and I have not been asked for a phone number. I am using Fastmail with a custom domain and set up an alias. Everything works including the custom launcher. I completed the entire process on Linux. I agree with other observations on this thread that individual accounts and phone number authentication would not be safe assumptions for many minecraft households. It will be difficult for Microsoft to tighten this process further. |
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I have for the past couple of weeks, tried making microsoft accounts , where I set up 2FA with TOTP, set up an alternate email, even pulled the account recovery code from the security section.
One was banned after a week, the other one hasn't been banned yet, but was made a little bit later than the first one's creation- so it might just be a matter of time. Neither one has a phone number, but I did notice i was in a different location when the first one got banned, so I suspect if you play on a laptop or mobile device and the IP does not match up, you're considered gone by the system. If it's not a auto-timer as it seems to somewhat be.
This was on Windows in both instances.
The difficulty here is , if it does flag it- how would you recover it without giving them a phone number, since you couldn't access something allowing you to migrate to a different microsoft account at that stage.