They do not. I know from first hand experience. More fundamental question: How can you distiguish a "burner" phone (no registered user name at mobile phone company)? As I understand, a SaaS (like Google et al) cannot distinguish.
Facebook probably can (or could if they wanted) because they've got everyone's contacts. But yeah, never had an issue with throwaway SIMs with any of the listed services.
Yes, I do. All you have to do is look up the IP of someone connecting, and if its not a home IP (e.g. a datacenter IP, like inside an IP range that a larger hosting company owns), its most likely a VPN or something similar.
Instead of writing this comment you could've taken one of the nodes you run (since you seem to be so qualified) and simply install openvpn on it and connect to it. Then go and visit sites that would be restrictive, or visit any site that tells you more about your IP.
But sure, go off and question my qualifications because you haven't considered this, or tried it, or ran into the issue yourself.
Plus, the way Discord, for example, does phone numbers, is that they just block anything they arent quite sure about.
I’m surprised I haven’t read any articles about how low income people with bad credit who can’t get a post paid cell phone are banned from gmail. Or maybe this is just incorrect.
I cannot remember the last time I've read an article about any issues low income households face when using tech, but maybe thats just my selection of news, im not sure.
I know that I have difficulties using some services because I cannot afford faster internet, for example.
I have a burner phone specifically for SMS. When jackasses sell it to the credit bureaus I deny it's my phone, whether I utilized it for SMS is irrelevant.
