“PayPal forcing me to have a cellphone to access my account”

The most annoying part of company support forums like this, other than the total lack of response from actual company representatives, is the bootlicking simps who show up in the replies to defend the company. What kind of person does this? What possible reward do they expect for defending the user-hostile decisions of multinational billion dollar corporations?

This got me too, they locked me out of my account with close to a thousand dollars. I tell people every chance I get to avoid PayPal, they're a horrible company. Most of the time I hear back, "Yeah I know."

So many companies are insisting on adding the extra vulnerability of sim-swapping.<p>I imagine on the aggregate level there might be less fraud? Or is it just the need to harvest more and more data? The way things are going, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to see PayPal insist upon a mobile app install next.

Seems interesting that smartphones are so ubiquitous nowadays that companies are happier to just drop customers that don&#x27;t have them than adjusting their business strategy. We seem to be moving towards a future where not having a smartphone is just as unthinkable as not having a bank account or electricity.

I&#x27;m locked out of my paypal account right now because they decided to enable 2fa on an ancient phone number I had in there from years ago out of nowhere.<p>I don&#x27;t have access to that number anymore and there&#x27;s no way to change it.

The one I ran into recently was Discord. I use Skype to front all of my SMS. Unfortunately, the SMS-in numbers are not tagged &quot;mobile&quot;, so Discord refuses to accept them. Their &quot;solution&quot; is for me to register another account and hope I do not need to provide my phone number... Despite my specifically pointing out that the only reason I need to do this is that Discord allows their servers to require this kind of verification.<p>Ah well, guess I cannot be a Discord user.

PayPal was the pioneer of e-commerce once upon a time, but now it is better to forget them for good.

Don&#x27;t you guys have phones?

&gt; What kind of person does this?<p>Possibly Employees pretending to be customers

I was just thinking about that. I like the idea of getting rid of my phone. But looks like you can&#x27;t do that now.

They are ubiquitous. Old guy at the cafe counter has one he got for $1. So maybe not the societal problem it might have been decades ago.<p>I mean, if you need a PayPal account then you must have a dollar.