I only plan to use it for messaging in a couple of sports teams and event invitations.

I’m willing to take a lot of measures as long as they don’t get the account blocked - no phone app, dedicated virtual machine+VPN to isolate from other internet activity, purchased fake phone number in signup, adding fake interests and life details. However, I won’t provide any real ID/photos, are these needed for signup?

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    32·
    6 hours ago

    You can use Messenger without an account, but you do have to provide your phone number.

    E: I’m literally the only person providing useful information and being downvoted for it LOL nice. What a great community.

    • AnEye@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      but you do have to provide your phone number.

      I managed to used a non-KYC SMS service to register a FB account, only took 2 tries and they refund the failed one. If I’m lucky, I won’t get pinged after a few days like @borokov did.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Which service did you use? In my experience they can detect and reject these services.