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by philliphaydon 1205 days ago
They don’t require a phone number when you create an account. And they have a social login using gmail or Microsoft.
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> They don’t require a phone number when you create an account. And they have a social login using gmail or Microsoft.

They absolutely do for certain locations.

Have you got a location? Just tried Singapore & Thailand on a vpn and it didn’t ask.
Please inform me how. I've been trying to create an account but cannot as they require a phone number, and my only number is a Google voice account which is not allowed.
What country? I can’t find a country where it’s required…
I'm in the same boat here. Had logged in with my google account which was sufficient for the first days but than suddenly they needed my phone number too.

Germany here.

So I signed up in Thailand and Singapore without a phone number. After I disconnected from the vpn and then signed out to sign back in with my account I got asked for a phone number. I think I dug myself into a hole.