They do this for all new accounts. It's a way to harvest phone numbers from unsuspecting victims of this surveillance.
It doesn't matter from what ip, machine or whatever you register. It will automatically get suspended because I think they've realized it's easier to force people to enter their phone numbers in "protection" after they just created an account rather than to just ask for it during signup.
It doesn't matter from what ip, machine or whatever you register. It will automatically get suspended because I think they've realized it's easier to force people to enter their phone numbers in "protection" after they just created an account rather than to just ask for it during signup.
Less questions are asked. I wrote a blog post on my now deleted blog, but discussions on HN was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19487304