# GitLab **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/gitlab/15517 **Category:** General **Created:** 2023-12-10T18:29:16Z **Posts:** 25 ## Post 1 by @kocica180 — 2023-12-10T18:29:16Z I moved out of GitHub long ago; no regrets whatsoever! Tried registering at GitLab just to see this: ![Zrzut ekranu 2023-12-10 o 19.26.18](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/e/eb2cc8b86124942da4daa37a8ac52ebcc7ebaa24.jpeg) They require you to provide them with your phone number. While as email we can use service like SimpleLogin, we need to provide real number. Just Fuck Off GitLab. --- ## Post 3 by @anon73250778 — 2023-12-10T20:15:21Z Funny how GitHub is more anonymous despite it being owned by MSFT --- ## Post 4 by @xe3 — 2023-12-10T20:23:13Z I tried to signup for Github with both Skiff as well as either Addy or Simplelogin (one of the two, I don’t remember which) and was rejected. Contacted support and was told no temporary e-mail addresses. I told them none of those were temp mail providers and was still told no. They said Proton was okay, but wouldn’t allow these others. So github has it’s problems as well. --- ## Post 5 by @anon73250778 — 2023-12-10T20:25:53Z Oh wow, I guess I got lucky I am using SimpleLogin. Are you on a paid account/paid ProtonMail? --- ## Post 6 by @Reset0609 — 2023-12-10T20:26:58Z I was able to change my github email address to a simplelogin alias. Theyve however blocked me from using github for authentication in other apps and websites --- ## Post 7 by @xe3 — 2023-12-10T21:05:53Z > [@anon73250778](#): > > Oh wow, I guess I got lucky I am using SimpleLogin. Are you on a paid account/paid ProtonMail? No paid account. And as mentioned I can’t recall if it was an Addy or a Simplelogin address (I am currently testing both side by side). edit: just went back to review my records of the problem. 1. Signed up with an [addy.io](http://addy.io) address, and was silently _shadowbanned_ (as in everything seemed normal on my end, but if I created an issue, made a comment in a discussion, etc it was invisible to everyone other than me. Took me a month to realize and contact github, the confirmed their was an automated shadown ban due to using an alias (_"Thanks for reaching out. Our spam detecting systems flagged your account because of the email address you used. **Temporary/aliased email addresses are not permitted** for use on GitHub accounts. Before we can remove the flag we need you to add a personal, non-disposable, email address:_) 2. Switched to a skiff address and this was flagged as well. 3. Switched to a different email provider and this worked. 4. All good now. So if you are using Simplelogin for your account, it may be fine, but you may also want to double check and make sure others on github can interact with you or see your comments. Github’s anti-spam system will just silently make you invisible, you will not receive a warning that there is a problem. --- ## Post 8 by @exaCORE — 2023-12-10T21:47:11Z I registered my account with an annonaddy address a while ago and it seems to be fine (I double checked on a private browser window), but that’s kinda scary… good thing I registered my accounts with alias addresses before they started doing this --- ## Post 9 by @anon90831229 — 2023-12-11T00:17:21Z Well if you look at what Codeberg has been struggling with a lot lately, it is actually spam. So their motivation at GitLab is probably prohibition of that. That being said, of course a measure like this is not acceptable and easily a reason for never using them. Maybe also take a look at [https://giveupgithub.com/](https://giveupgithub.com/) it lists some alternatives. It is very slightly outdated, somebody should write to their mailing list. --- ## Post 10 by @anon89321548 — 2023-12-11T00:22:51Z FWIW, I signed up on GH very recently with my skiff address. --- ## Post 11 by @xe3 — 2023-12-11T00:26:19Z Good to hear. I reported it to Skiff at the time and they said they would reach out to Github and try to get off the blocklist (this was in October I believe) so hopefully it has been cleared up. --- ## Post 12 by @anon21489307 — 2023-12-11T01:25:12Z I also change my email to Skiff on GitHub recently without any issue. However, on this thread topic, I use GitHub login as my GitLab account. So, GitLab doesn’t have my phone number. --- ## Post 13 by @anon73250778 — 2023-12-11T01:49:18Z I am using a yubikey with the account. Maybe it looked less suspicious? IIRC i did not use the more common alias at the time. I mainly use it for bug reporting. --- ## Post 14 by @anon90831229 — 2023-12-11T23:26:53Z If you already have an account, that’s no problem. They’re not interested per se what provider you use or if they know your phone number or not. They probably just want to stop spam waves. Judging from the issues I have seen reported on Codeberg community, the spammers create many new accounts and start posting comments/issues with spammy content. That means new account creation is the issue. Old accounts don’t suddenly start spamming for the most part, so they’re not gonna look on those. Again to reiterate that point because it should not be forgotten: These stop-gap measures for account creation are still not acceptable in my opinion. I don’t condone spam obviously but if the problem is hard to solve you have to throw more resources at it somehow to solve it properly, not implement something which kinda works but does so at the expense of excluding legitimate users. That is not an ok thing to do. --- ## Post 15 by @M-A9NPV — 2023-12-12T00:30:14Z No dev here but I did sign up on GitHub for repo updates and I used a SL alias (@8alias.com) and it worked fine. I’m premium though. --- ## Post 16 by @zestygrass — 2023-12-12T08:18:53Z This is new on gitlab, I was able to make an account with alias email last year with them, no issues. Github is what blocked me, demanded a real email address, so I used a real email, _an alias on a domain they don’t block._ --- ## Post 17 by @Reset0609 — 2023-12-13T23:19:57Z recently created a gitlab account, no phone number was required. I used a simplelogin alias and was using a vpn --- ## Post 18 by @M-A9NPV — 2023-12-14T00:08:44Z Don’t mean to derail, but what’s the difference between Lab and Hub? --- ## Post 19 by @exaCORE — 2023-12-14T00:27:35Z they use the same version management system: git, they are just different frontends/implementations of it. Lab is partially open source hub is closed and owned by MS --- ## Post 20 by @M-A9NPV — 2023-12-14T01:19:20Z Thank you! --- ## Post 21 by @anon90831229 — 2023-12-14T09:36:07Z Theyre both software forges. They do a lot of things other than just version management. Static hosting, wikis, issue management, CI, container image registry and much more. GitHub being the behemoth owned by Microsoft and GitLab is a competitor in that space. While GitLab does have an open source community edition with less features (open core model), if you actually value open source there are other forges around that might suit you better. For example Forgejo. --- ## Post 22 by @M-A9NPV — 2023-12-14T12:58:24Z Thank you! --- ## Post 23 by @wojciechxtx — 2024-01-13T13:40:53Z > [@anon90831229](#): > > Forgejo. Pretty new, young project. Still worth giving a test-go :slight_smile: > [@exaCORE](#): > > they use the same version management system: git, they are just different frontends/implementations of it. Lab is partially open source hub is closed and owned by MS Just one thing to add is that `GitLab` is more expensive than `GitHub`. > [@anon90831229](#): > > If you already have an account, that’s no problem. They’re not interested per se what provider you use or if they know your phone number or not. They probably just want to stop spam waves. Judging from the issues I have seen reported on Codeberg community, the spammers create many new accounts and start posting comments/issues with spammy content. That means new account creation is the issue. Old accounts don’t suddenly start spamming for the most part, so they’re not gonna look on those. Antispam tactics PoV seems understandable to me, but still, demanding phone number is an overkill to me. For me, requiring `2fa/passkey` would do the trick. > [@anon90831229](#): > > That is not an ok thing to do. Exactly :slight_smile: > [@xe3](#): > > They said Proton was okay Back in the day of me having `GitHub` account, `Proton` was **not** ok. Maybe they changed it, idk… > [@anon73250778](#): > > Funny how GitHub is more anonymous despite it being owned by MSFT GitHub (and every other portal) is as anonymous as its users let them be; I mean the more data one provides in `profile`, the less anonymous it gets… --- ## Post 24 by @Weren — 2024-01-13T14:15:06Z Try this Open Source analogs: 1. [Gitea](https://gitea.com/user/login) 2. [Notabug](https://notabug.org) --- ## Post 25 by @ph00lt0 — 2024-07-25T20:13:23Z Gitlab is seemingly getting aquired. > **[GitLab users cautiously optimistic on Datadog DevSecOps deal | TechTarget](https://www.techtarget.com/searchITOperations/news/366596593/GitLab-users-cautiously-optimistic-on-Datadog-DevSecOps-deal)** > > IT pros said they understand why Datadog is reportedly considering buying DevSecOps vendor GitLab, but aren't sure if they'd jump on combined products.