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		pbhjpbhj on Feb 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Living without a SIM card It's news to me, I thought you needed (in the UK) a phone number to register with Google. They send you a text message as part of onboarding (or did last I tried). That's common to most online social apps now, perhaps all of them?

NotSammyHagar on Feb 9, 2020 [–]

they have a kind of dark login pattern where it looks like you have to use phone number but you don't have to at least in my country.

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