For one I trust? Never actually used one, sorry. I’ve used faxburner, for faxing, without issue, but it doesn’t look like they offer SMS.

I mean, finding ways around that is the whole point of Posts like this one?

Personally, I use different browsers for different purposes on a rando Android phone(+vpn for torrents). I watch this community to try to stay abreast of current privacy/security issues, but I don’t make much effort to live it, as I’ll go dark long before I’ll really have anything to hide.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go bitch at the librarians again, for disposing of the microfiche after they digitized it.

burner SMS. Burner dummy Google account strictly for age-restricted content. I don’t really see what’s to lose?

Also, you can turn off 2FA, so the number is only “needed” if you forget your password and/or lose access to the backup e-mail.

Bunch of services out there offering Free SMS Numbers for 2FA. You might also try searching “Burner SMS”, but anyways, there are options.

lemmy.world is NOT “Lemmy”

Hell, during the great reddit migration, if I recall correctly, lemmy.world had to cap sign-ups.

I mean, I’m aware of the near-infinite ways to accomplish what I’ve described on PC or Mac. Android or iOS are the environments I’ve not found a convenient way around the limitations, and sadly where I do most of my content-consumption.

Whole point of using different browsers for me is keeping things seperate. I don’t sign into anything on Chrome, and all I use it for is …

Anyways, I wish I could just have multiple installs of a browser I almost trust, but keep the various categories of cookies and logins seperate from one another.