If the only deal breaker is your phone number, this is going to be an issue for you moving into the future with many service providers. Consider leasing a number through Twilio, it will save you from frustration.
Guess I'm Done with Discord
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Re: Guess I'm Done with Discord
#32A private company has the right to choose where its traffic comes from, nothing surprising here.
There are legitimate reasons to block TOR traffic, and even if there where none, they'd still have the right to block anyone of their users.
There are plenty of alternatives, simply remember not to choose one ran by a private company again.
Re: Guess I'm Done with Discord
#33This is a typical response from service companies in the Internet age. They don't care about truth, or what actually happened, the algorithm says you're bad then you're bad. There's no human to appeal to, no human oversight of if their algorithm is right or wrong. They use another algorithm to check it, which tells them that you must be a bad actor. I've had my own issues with Lyft that are similar. Banned from using…
Assuming you're willing to share, how did you get banned from Lyft without ever ordering a ride?
I had a similar experience with two other services.
Digital Ocean banned be as soon as I registered. I verified my email, then was asked to confirm some personal info, as I was filling their form, I got an email telling me my account was disabled permanently and it was final. (I went on to use Linode and Scaleway after that.)
And Pokemon Go, which I never installed on any of my phones, I got an email saying my account was banned. I wonder what account, since I never signed up to their services.
Re: Guess I'm Done with Discord
#34> I refuse to provide phone verification as I believe it is Discord's fault for flagging my account... > I will be communicating with a couple communities with which I'm involved to explain that I am unable to use Discord Does this person not have a phone? 'Unable' seems like a stretch. If this person said, "I don't want to provide my phone number to Discord, so I'm going to stop using it" I'd understand. Their openi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentiveness
Not at all, the author uses Tor to anonymize their location and probably system footprint. If you read the response the only "acceptable" phone number is a mobile phone. It de-anonymizes you because mobile providers hand out this sort of information for cash.
The only reason for the phone number request, based on the requirements of what kind of phone numbers are acceptable (no VOIP, no landlines) is that they want to be know where this user is when ever they use the service, or how to locate them.
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#35> I refuse to provide phone verification as I believe it is Discord's fault for flagging my account... > I will be communicating with a couple communities with which I'm involved to explain that I am unable to use Discord Does this person not have a phone? 'Unable' seems like a stretch. If this person said, "I don't want to provide my phone number to Discord, so I'm going to stop using it" I'd understand. Their openi…
God forbid somebody spit some venom at a corporation they are otherwise powerless against.
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#36I understand the frustration on the part of the user and I dislike that we're all being forced to give up our anonymity to use these platforms... but also the tone of both emails was quite antagonistic. They may have had slightly better luck if they'd been friendlier and not attempted to school the Discord staff on how their app should behave.
You know what else is antagonistic? removing you from the service.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/critique-of-pure-niceness-whym...
Re: Guess I'm Done with Discord
#37Tor breaks a lot of shit for me, and I dont even bother with captchas becuase it usually just flags me as a bot. So I dont think this is particularly surprising or out of the ordinary. But yeah, discord used to be held in high standards by me and plenty of other gamers, but they have made it clear that they cannot handle tough situations, and dont really care about their userbase. Someone should start a privacy focus…
I mean it's not exactly privacy focused but if you just use it for spam then Google Voice or Skype numbers would work fine for this.
Yeah, those are great, but I could easily see a situation where google bans you from using voice for an equally opaque reason, and then you're really screwed with all your 2fa for a while. Something more privacy focused and reliable for people like op.
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#38I want to be done with discord. The only value i find is the notifications when you have an @reply. Isn't there someone that has done this for freenode or other IRC ?
I used to use a bouncer, vnc, which there's a plugin for push notifications. Now I use matrix.org, which bridges to freenode and many (all?) other IRC servers and does notifications well. Quite happy with it, personally.
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#39I like that for privicy reasons they won't tell you why you were banned. Whose privicy? Does that just mean "our black box NN has banned you and we won't know or care why" ?
For privacy reasons implies either what you are suggesting or that they are contacting Discord from an email address not affiliated with the account in question.
The user specifically said they were using the email address associated with the account.
Re: Guess I'm Done with Discord
#40> I refuse to provide phone verification as I believe it is Discord's fault for flagging my account... > I will be communicating with a couple communities with which I'm involved to explain that I am unable to use Discord Does this person not have a phone? 'Unable' seems like a stretch. If this person said, "I don't want to provide my phone number to Discord, so I'm going to stop using it" I'd understand. Their openi…
Discord's been an abusive member of the community for a long time. They distort nomenclature, mislead about their intentions, and aren't able to show that they protect personal information. As a light and funny example, Discord doesn't comply with the OpenSSL license.
> Discord doesn't comply with the OpenSSL license.
In what way? Have you reached out to Discord to make them aware? They seem fairly committed to open source from everything I've read.