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Re:My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero by artificialLimbs on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:10AM (#25642694)
Their numbers aren't always accepted with various entities. I just tried to register with irs.gov, for example, unsuccessfully.
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Re:My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero by hansvm on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @02:08AM (#25642958)
There are whole blocks of legitimate carriers that aren't accepted with various entities. Last time I tried to make a Facebook account I went so far as to buy a phone and a cell plan to try to get a number that would validate in their system, but they wouldn't budge.
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Re:My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero by zucked on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:58AM (#25647545)
Yup - the numbers Google Voice has are tagged as 'VoIP numbers' in some dataset somewhere and are blacklisted by a fair number of services and blocked from 2FA or Sign-up.

This has also happened to me when using MVNO carriers (Cricket, for example).

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