Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by jammygit on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @09:31PM (#19159183)

I had Microsoft do this. They notified me that my account was being suspicious, so I needed to provide a phone number to use it. I had literally just made the account though, zero activity at all. It was just to force me to give a phone number to them for their data harvest

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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by dylan604 on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @09:48PM (#19159246)

I ran into this with MS as well. However, they explicitly stated that it did not need to be my phone number. So since it was for a work thing, I ask to use my boss' number to get around the lockout. Seemed pretty pointless.

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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by jsymolon on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:08AM (#19161558)

One of my land-line numbers is so spam filled, i ignore it and use it as the default phone number for such antics.

I disconnected the ringer so it doesn't bother me.

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