Hello I do not have a cellphone number that I wish to give to Yahoo. How can I open an account? John P.S. Can anyone here let me user their mobile phone?
No one on a forum is going to let you use their mobile number. Maybe you can ask someone that you know off line?
I genuinely fail to see why we should give major corporations the phone numbers of the people we work with. WFT? OK so, how can those of us who hate the Orwellian future that we are sleepwalking into fight back? In this case, where can I get a mobile phone number to send an SMS code to just once, that is NOTHING TO DO WITH ME?
WHERE? I'd love to know how! From what I can see a mobile phone number is *complusory*. And ideally they want you to add two phone numbers - even if you say you live in India! Personally I am disgusted and depressed by this situation. Why should major corporations be given such private information? Whatever happened to freedom of expression? Here is a screenshot of the yahoo signup form...
That's strange. I can create a yahoo account without that mobile number field. I think, that may depend on a person's location.
Webfrontier - brilliant! Any chance you could create one for me and I'll just change the PW and take over. Anything to defeat the Orwellian global conglomerates!
For your protection, you have to add your mobile number. I just experienced my account getting compromised recently. I emailed the yahoo customer service just to retrieve my account and to reset my password. You can only change your password after you have typed in the field the correct verification code sent to your mobile number. We should not ignore the protection that we can get from it.
Can't you sign into Yahoo! using Facebook now? Anyway, if it's that big of a deal to you, I can make a Yahoo! account for you, if that will even work? Let me know...
If you need a cheap cell phone for this type of thing (as well as a Craigslist account), you can get a Tracfone for under $10 at Target or Walmart. Sometimes they are on sale for $5-6 and are great if you need to set up an account like this. Don't buy any extra minutes...they come with 30 minutes or so and that's more than enough to get a text or two with the codes you need.
Gmail was doing the same thing off and on. Sometimes it would require you to enter a mobile phone number before allowing you to sign up for an email account, sometimes not. There is no security benefit to having a mobile number. If your account gets compromised, it is your fault. Choose a better password and more often than not, those security questions are the weakest part of online security. Yahoo email is inferior to Gmail anyway. With Gmail, if you send yourself an email from another account, you will get it in your Gmail box within seconds. With Yahoo, it can take up to 5 minutes for the email to appear in your inbox.
Hey you can signup to yahoo using Facebook and Google . So even if you don't have a mobile number you can still use yahoo via fb or Google account . Cheers
No - absolutely not. I value my privacy more than my ability to control my Yahoo account. In fact I don't even care if I lose control of my yahoo account - I would just open another one if necessary. In fact for Orwellian reasons I kill off my accounts about once every year or two in any case. But why (the heck) can't I just give them a couple of other email addresses?
Good point. I guess I could open a FB or Google account just for the purpose - I'm certainly not using my main FB account just so that Yahoo can spy on me too.
Solved . You can see details in this thread https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/signup-for-yahoo-without-mobile-number-solved.2732610/#post-19039657
Nope, I couldn't get that to work. I logged into a newly created Google account, but yahoo still demanded a mobile phone number. Where is the button to kill everyone Yahoo? J
Yes, please can you create a yahoo account for me. Please just make up a random usernamem, using random lies in the data to throw the Orwellian privacy attackers off the scent Thanks in advance J
you can use a homephone whhen it asks you send sms click the part were it says call. An operator will say the digits.