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  "path": "/t/how-to-sign-up-for-instagram-without-phone-number/38593#post_3",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-18T14:16:38.000Z",
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  "textContent": "As someone who in the past had created an IG account with an alias and VPN, this is alarming news to me. That being said, when trying to anonymously sign up for services like Instagram, Twitter, Mastodon, etc., my default has always been to do it over desktop.\n\nI don’t understand why people in the privacy community try to do it on mobile first when you have less control over what your device communicates about you.\n\n  1. **Have you tried to signing up over desktop?**\n  2. **Which alias providers are you using?**\n\n\n\nheadphone:\n\n> SMS pool doesn’t have my country which can be problematic as Instagram will know my true country and buying a whole burner phone and prepaid plan for this is way too expensive.\n\nNot sure what you mean by this. When I use SMS Pool, I deliberately choose numbers that are not in my location to protect my privacy. Ideally, I would not match my VPN IP location to my phone number location, but with some services, that can create problems, so it’s better to match them. But even if you match them, they don’t need to be your actual location.\n\nHere is my advice.\n\n  1. **Try signing up via desktop first.**\n\n\n\nIt’s likely they won’t ask you for a phone number.\n\n_**a) If it works, immediately enabled 2FA via authentication app.**_\n_**b) If they ask for a phone number move to step 2.**_\n\n  2. **Use SMS Pool (Still on desktop not your phone)**\n\n\n\nMatch your VPN IP location (Sweden) to your SMS Pool number (Sweden), but make sure they are not your actual location (Australia).\n\nUsing SMS should cost you more than $5. I would recommend you opt for a plan that gives you access for at least a week or a month, just in case anything goes wrong. Because sometimes, you will be able to sign up for service with SMS Pool, but then when you log in the next day or the next week, they ask you for your number again, and you don’t have access to it anymore.\n\n_**If it works, immediately enable 2FA via authentication app so you don’t have to rely on your number to sign in.**_\n\nAt his stage it it is not clear to me that you need SMS Pool because you don’t seem to have tried to sign up via desktop first.",
  "title": "How to sign up for Instagram without phone number?"
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