Creating a Youtube account without giving phone number?
- Thread starter Dimitri
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Two-factor authentication and the ability to recover your account if for some reason you lose access to it.
You act like they're gonna spam your number or call you incessantly.
ok,ill bite.what is this number?
Agent Smith
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OP, you can try a free SIP phone number, but a lot of those are blocked by Google. Best case is to buy a throw-a-way phone and use that number to receive the text.
I just don't understand why it is mandatory, and if it is, why can't I give an alternative email?
Agent Smith
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That's a valid point. Some websites actually have an E-mail as a two-factor option. I hate the fact so many websites want more and more of your Info. Especially a phone number. And not 100% of the populace has a damn cell phone either. Come to think of it, how does a 16 year old sign up for YouTube? Granted, in this day and age they might have a cell provided by their enabling parents. Back in my day it was the pager. LOL
Geoff
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Does it require you to verify the number? If not, why don't you just use a random/fake number?
killershark1978
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Link it though your google account why not?
Ok you have to give your phone number for a google account, but so what 99.9% of people will have a google account anyway and if you don't there really is no point been part of the 0.1% still living in the dark ages. So link YT to google and problem solved, why have another unnecessary account with YT, seems so pointless.
Alternative idea go by a cheap second phone on Pay as you Go for around £12.99 most basic thing you will ever see, you will never need to top it up with credit or use it, and just use it for the single purpose of phone verification checks on the web for YT or any other service or site that wants your number via verification, just keep it locked away somewhere uncharged and only get it out again for those rare moments when you want give a fake verification number to a website.
Ok you have to give your phone number for a google account, but so what 99.9% of people will have a google account anyway and if you don't there really is no point been part of the 0.1% still living in the dark ages. So link YT to google and problem solved, why have another unnecessary account with YT, seems so pointless.
Alternative idea go by a cheap second phone on Pay as you Go for around £12.99 most basic thing you will ever see, you will never need to top it up with credit or use it, and just use it for the single purpose of phone verification checks on the web for YT or any other service or site that wants your number via verification, just keep it locked away somewhere uncharged and only get it out again for those rare moments when you want give a fake verification number to a website.
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Why would you get a second phone when you can just use something like Google Voice for free?
Agent Smith
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Geoff
VIP Member
Get a Google Voice number for free
Wow I didn't know that it was required. I signed up and posted videos many years ago when none of that stuff was needed except for an email address. I don't remember how long ago it was, but at one time Google was trying to force me to use my real name on YouTube and I kept changing it back until they didn't ask anymore.
And then google somehow discovered my phone number which started a barrage of unwelcome telemarketers. Every time I searched for an item on google or talked about something in a forum, a telemarketer would call about a sell going on or something. It got so bad that I bought an answering machine with a message "This phone is monitored. State your name and business as we will determine whether we will answer or not."
Well we ended up with a lot of hangups except for computer recorded messages. The calls started to go down and we are now down to about 5 calls a day, but I think they are mostly elections stuff now.
And then google somehow discovered my phone number which started a barrage of unwelcome telemarketers. Every time I searched for an item on google or talked about something in a forum, a telemarketer would call about a sell going on or something. It got so bad that I bought an answering machine with a message "This phone is monitored. State your name and business as we will determine whether we will answer or not."
Well we ended up with a lot of hangups except for computer recorded messages. The calls started to go down and we are now down to about 5 calls a day, but I think they are mostly elections stuff now.
Agent Smith
Well-Known Member
If your phone has multi-ring I think it's called check out Nomorobo. It has saved my sanity. Your phone will ring once and that's it.
I also have a dedicated Dell mini netbook running PhoneTray that catches everything else.
Ooma (a VOIP provider) is Nomorobo compatible.
I can't, I'm in Europe. Is there any free service that allows you to receive texts?
Well, I found something, if you google something like receive sms online, you'll find A LOT of these services that allow you to receive sms online for free, trouble is Google (becuase you have to create a Google account for Youtube) rejects almost all of them. Says "This phone number cannot be used for verification." or that the number has been used for verification too many times (so people are already using this trick).
I've only gotten it to accept 2, but the message isn't showing up in either.
Anyone familiar with these things, can anyone recommend a number Google will accept?
I've only gotten it to accept 2, but the message isn't showing up in either.
Anyone familiar with these things, can anyone recommend a number Google will accept?
