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I want to play with OpenAI so badly, but my only phone number is a Google Voice number; and their sign-up refuses to allow it for whatever reason.

This is my phone number for the last 17 years...



There are services designed to help by giving you a temporary number for SMS verification. I've used one recently and it worked fine, but I can't find the name.


Do you have issues with 2FA?


I use Google voice and generally sms 2fa just works. Occasionally I have to revert to the phone call based option. However, I just ran into the first case of it not working at all... Wells Fargo. And I can't change it without receiving sms 2fa unless I either drive an hour to the nearest branch or send in a notarized letter...


99.9% of the time, no. My primary bank was working before, and now it doesn't - after years of being fine. And services like OpenAI which explicitly block "VoIP phone numbers"




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