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d, players submit their numbers voluntarily, because the alternative is to spend hours upon hours bickering with tech support without clear guarantee of success. Upon gaining access and inspecting this 'suspicious activity' players appear to inevitably find it to consist exclusively of their own logins from the same home IP they always use.)

u can't do anything, since it's linked to Minecraft- as well as other stuff. You'd think they'd allow one to still play Minecraft- but i guess if you can't log into the account, you're out of luck

am prevention, then if you have a lot of kids, you would be in trouble due to multiple accounts sharing the same number unless you bought every kid a phone. Apparently alternate email addresses used to be enough, to stop this but the system still automatically flags you. I don't know if TOTP 2 factor authentication works, but have read if you submit the reclaim-your-account form with lots of personal details, Microsoft considers this not-workable if you had setup MFA on your account and won't intervene. An option with Microsoft accounts is to set up their own dedicated microsoft authentication app to get in passwordlessly (but that feature isn't going to be on the Minecraft launcher, likely) , but this isn't as clear cut over if it pulls your phone number and other details from your phone. Does anyone know of a method my family could preserve their phone number privacy while continuing to play? Is there a way to set up a Microsoft account with enough authentication that it doesn't auto-ban you a little bit later and force you to give them more info to keep the account? I don't know if TOTP is enough, there's been mixed results per https://github.com/MultiMC/Launcher/issues/4093 I know some might wonder about third party clients or as some called them it seems ,hacked clients , but those don't support LAN/multiplayer it appears. Note: the message Microsoft accounts tell you is that they detected suspicious activity, but for those who gave them the info then checked the suspicious activity log in the (new)account, nothing but their own logins are shown, indicating this might be more of a phone-number-obtaining thing. I have trouble believing the tens of millions of players on Minecraft are all able to give phone numbers, and this seems concerning from a privacy point of view.

ibute your own builds. You will also have to register your own app on Azure to be able to handle Microsoft account logins. </quote>