alt Hacker NewsOh, excellent! Having been on the end of someone flooding a service with tens of thousands of autogenerated Gmail accounts.
And if you don’t want to share your phone number with Google, which I totally respect, there are a zillion other email providers. Contrary to popular perception, Gmail != email.
most major platforms reject email addresses that are not from major providers. for example creating a deepseek account asks to use a "global provider" and gives GMail as an example. github recently rejected @proton.me. discord does this as well etc