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
This is the story of the internet. I was in on the ground floor of the blogosphere in the early 2000s, and many tech savy conservatives my age cut their teeth on blogs.
Then came social media, and Twitter, which sucked the wind out of the sails of the blogosphere.
And then Apple introduces the iPhone, and once social media introduced mobile apps to reach that audience, that cemented an app for normies as the central user base any developer has to keep in mind when creating software.
The rest, as they say, is history.