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Do you need a Chinese phone number for Quark?

Quark (夸克) is Alibaba's browser and cloud drive, and its account hangs on a phone number — the privacy policy is blunt about it: give no number, get no account, only browsing and search. The number it wants is a mainland Chinese one. Neither catalogue here carries a mainland line, not the monthly rentals and not the one-time numbers, so this page has nothing to sell you. It sets out the routes in and the threshold each one has of its own, so you do not pay for a number that will not work.

Quark account
needs a phone
Mainland +86
not sold here
Third-party login
Taobao / Alipay / WeChat / QQ
What we do sell
overseas numbers

How it works

  1. Work out which door you are at

    Quark has two ways in: register with a phone number, or sign in with an account you already hold — Taobao, Alipay, WeChat or QQ. Which of those you are missing decides which step below matters to you.

  2. The phone route: we cannot help

    Quark's privacy policy names no region restriction. Every guide written for overseas users still routes around phone registration and reaches for a scan instead, which tells you how that route goes in practice. And this catalogue carries no mainland Chinese line at all — no monthly rental, no one-time number — so there is nothing here to sell you for it.

  1. The third-party route: the threshold just moves

    Taobao, Alipay, WeChat and QQ can all sign you into Quark; Quark's own policy lists them. Each of those accounts has a gate of its own, though: a new WeChat account generally needs an established user to vouch for it, and that user usually has to have been registered for six months and not have vouched for anyone that month. Alipay and Taobao want real-name verification. Hold none of the four and this route ends where the last one did.

  2. Do not buy a number sold as working for Quark

    If a seller tells you some overseas line receives Quark's code, ask them to demonstrate it before you pay — the code landing on that line, in front of you. This is not aimed at anyone in particular: we cannot do it either, which is why this page is selling you nothing.

What can go wrong

Will one of your Hong Kong numbers receive a Quark code?

We do not know. There is a Hong Kong monthly line in this catalogue and a Hong Kong one-time number, but nobody has tested either against Quark. We are not going to sell you a number on the strength of probably.

After signing in with a third-party account, does Quark still ask for a phone?

Quark's privacy policy states a phone number as the minimum for creating an account, and separately lists Taobao, Alipay, WeChat and QQ as sign-in options. Both sentences are there; the order between them is not written down, and we cannot confirm it for you. Go by what the screen asks when you sign in.

So what can 898tele actually do for Quark?

Nothing. This page exists so that sentence reaches you before you pay rather than after. What this shop does is overseas numbers — the Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal and Gmail kind of account, where a foreign line is the thing that is needed.

Frequently asked questions

Does registering Quark really require a phone number?

Quark's privacy policy says it plainly: to create a Quark account you must provide at least your mobile number, and if you decline you cannot register — only browsing and search stay open. So the account layer cannot be reached around the phone.

Does Quark accept an overseas phone number?

Quark's privacy policy names no region restriction. But every guide written for overseas users skips phone registration and reaches for a third-party scan, which at least says the route is hard for them. Nobody here has tested an overseas line against Quark, so we are not giving you a yes or a no.

Do you sell mainland Chinese numbers?

No. Neither the monthly catalogue nor the one-time catalogue carries mainland China.

Is WeChat the easiest way in?

For someone who already has WeChat, yes. For someone who does not, no — a new WeChat account generally needs an established user to vouch for it, and that user usually has to have been registered six months and not have vouched for anyone that month. It moves the same problem one square back.

Is this shop any use to me, then?

For Quark, no, and this page is here to save you one wasted purchase. For Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal or Gmail — accounts that need a foreign line — that is exactly what the catalogue is.