Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
by ev1 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:15AM
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Every major discord server (if you are not just strictly in DM with friends or make your own with friends) requires phone verification with virtually no exceptions.
Using any form of datacentre IP or anonymiser requires phone verification randomly within a few minutes or hours of starting interaction [regardless of server].
You get a different error message and cannot use discord at all: https://i.imgur.com/T57xcff.png
Not that it's necessarily malicious in intent—requiring “extra verification” only on suspected misuse isn't entirely unreasonable, and that's awfully hard to distinguish from things like targeted privacy attacks—but it would be nice to establish this sort of thing as common knowledge, especially since I imagine the chaff of “huh? no they don't” is only to their benefit.