How the fuck they decide what is a burner vs a phone owned by people who don't like getting raped by the likes of AT&T is beyond me.
Edit: Per suggestion below, one option is textverified.com. I have verified this works. You can pay with crypto. As little as 75c
I looked it up, this has been a thing for a while but only seems to kick up under specific circumstances. Mainly when joining certain kinds of servers or doing anything "suspiciously bot-like".
No idea if they've applied it to new account creation though. I know a few services have done that, (without doing so retroactively) over the years.
Suckiest part is if you do opt in, you cannot ever get that number removed.
Using a vpn already flags you. I had to give my phone number on an alt I had, I obviously did not and just abandoned that one.
I am not giving them my "real" number. NO way. If I can get a burner that works, as someone else suggested, I'll do that.
www.textverified.com
Thank you! Upvote x 1000
I edited the post to include your suggestion.