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Unfortunate but not surprising. It’s impossible to put up a 0 cost service on the net without it getting abused.

They didn’t say it will stop to be 0 cost for end users. Their concern here is with filtering what users violating their terms of service, not providing it for free.

Using Google or Facebook is a cost, it’s around $10-20 to get an account.

Is this a reference to needing a phone number?

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