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Is there a way to sign up for Claude without selling your soul to them? Last time I tried, it started with them demanding to write down my private telephone number. I'd maybe try, just for the sake of it, like OP... But not if it's also super invasive to me in specific?!
You could use SMSPool. They let you generate an account number without any personal information, and you can then pay anonymously via Monero.
Thank you very much! Kind of too much effort for this, since I'm not that invested in trying Anthropic's products... But I bet the service is going to prove useful for some other things. They occasionally lock my secondary Google accounts and other companies also force me to give real phone numbers. And the ones from the free services rarely work. So I'm gonna bookmark this for later use.
i think duckduckgo's llm thing provides claude models
Thanks! Yeah found it and it has some dropdown menu which includes some Claude model. Pretty sure someone must have told me about DuckAI before. I never knew you can select the provider to be used.