Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account

Re:Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create ... by mmh0000 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:14PM (#50356772)

I never signed up for Anthropic for the telephone reason.

Instead, I bought Kagi and OpenRouter and use Claude through those.

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Re:Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create ... by loveparade on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:01AM (#50362279)

And you are paying 20x more. Kind of hard to justify that for not giving a telephone number

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Re:Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create ... by mmh0000 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:01PM (#50368438)

Yes... God forbid I value my privacy more than my dollars...

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