Discord holding account hostage until I give them a phone number?

Gimpymoo · 11 Oct 2019 at 10:32

Apparently, their system as "accurately" flagged the account for verification.

Their almost useless support confirmed they will not do anything to assist with the account until I give them a phone number.

The question of "how do they make money" I think is now answered.

Heck, I can recover a Paypal account without a phone number.

Want to chat online, HECK NO.

I will no longer be using their services.

Xire · 11 Oct 2019 at 10:34

You are annoyed at them for trying to make sure your account is secure?

MissChief · 11 Oct 2019 at 10:48

Xire said:
You are annoyed at them for trying to make sure your account is secure?

And would probably complain about Discord's poor security if his account got hijacked too.

Steveocee · 11 Oct 2019 at 10:50

I'm unsure if this is serious or not? You do realise 2FA is a thing right?

Rofflay · 11 Oct 2019 at 10:53

But it was just voice comms, See how bloated it becomes once successful? I hate all this crap of logins sheesh the old days were so easy and unbloated.

WantoN · 11 Oct 2019 at 11:19

Most of you are jumping on the fella, but I agree. My Discord isn't exactly chock full of private information, why do they need a phone number?

I'm quite sick of giving up privacy inch by inch in the name of convenience. Data is the biggest earner, hell it's the business model, for most new companies these days.

Sin_Chase · 11 Oct 2019 at 11:26

Your phone number is likely the hardest thing too compromise (compared to email for example) so if they think your account has been compromised it seems reasonable.

Recover it then enable 2FA with a digital authentication method.

JeditOjanen · 11 Oct 2019 at 13:18

You can do Discord 2FA with the Authy app, but it still needs to know where to send the code. I have never had any spam from it, though.

Xire · 11 Oct 2019 at 14:51

WantoN said:
Most of you are jumping on the fella, but I agree. My Discord isn't exactly chock full of private information, why do they need a phone number?

I'm quite sick of giving up privacy inch by inch in the name of convenience. Data is the biggest earner, hell it's the business model, for most new companies these days.

Discord has a store.

Quartz · 11 Oct 2019 at 15:27

Steveocee said:
I'm unsure if this is serious or not? You do realise 2FA is a thing right?

Thanks for reminding me that I hadn't set it up. Now done.