Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?= Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Codes sent by text message Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 08:55:48 +0100 Organization: Camembert Normand au Lait Cru Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 07:55:48 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c312f29b457b834b3aa31944ea5f78c0"; logging-data="2340684"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX188txEwncgqpRSp+12GJ6Iy+wlhTxau17M=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/115.8.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0dOSy8rltforsy4xQdEofxVpy+Y= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: de-CH Bytes: 1844 Am 09.03.24 um 08:29 schrieb The Real Bev: > Some annoying websites insist on authentication by requiring me to enter > the number they send by text message. For some reason my google voice > number is never identified as a real phone number and I have to use my > old phone with the $10/year SIM to receive their code. > > WTF? Why is the google voice number not a REAL phone number? Google seems not to be a part of the regular telephony system in the USA and probably elsewhere. Same as WhatsApp, Signal or other Messengers. I guess you have no SIM card for this service. https://support.google.com/voice/thread/10031187/how-to-change-the-google-voice-number-to-be-real-cell-phone-number-with-sim-card?hl=en -- "Gutta cavat lapidem." (Ovid)