Why can’t you have multiple accounts? I have three: open source, gaming, personal.
It’s not like social media where you are required to have only one account and link it to your real name.
It’s not like social media where you are required to have only one account and link it to your real name.
Is it? I can see this being the case for malicious conduct, but they have stated [1] that it's not a violation to have multiple accounts (granted, this was 4 years ago).
Using phone numbers for human verification is lazy and needlessly intrusive.
Plus in the real world, it’s also a way of separating your identities. I have a work number and personal number, and only attach the work number to business services. Sure, it won’t prevent Google from banning all your accounts but for everyone else it’s a hard barrier to correlating that you are the same person. Added to the fact that my work laptop uses VPN, and I’m pretty sure that sites like GitHub have no idea I have multiple accounts.