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The reason most services require a phone number is so you can't just create a new account if you get banned and ideally your account is somewhat tied to a real person. They ban VOIP numbers because it would defeat the whole point.


What's preventing someone from getting mutiple regular phones and accounts for them then?


Cost. You can do it, but not hundreds of times like with an email address. Probably not even 10 times before you give up and do something else.




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