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  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    It would set a higher bar for a bot, but SMS wouldn’t stop them.
    There are SMS providers that will happily spin you up a number with one API call, then return any messages sent to them. The spam account could have a number, confirm the message, then delete the account faster than a human could solve a captcha.

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      1 year ago

      Is this really true?

      Twilio is the biggest sms back end and it’s like $10 per number month or something.

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        1 year ago

        $1.15/number/month, though that is still some cost.

        You’re right, the cost would make it a huge filter for spam. But you could conceivably have 1000 accounts on a verified server for just over a grand.