Instead of sacrificing your friend’s face to Facebook, you can sacrifice an AI-generated face. I commented above:

You can bypass this via github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam. You can get the faces needed from thispersondoesnotexist.com. Although if you are privacybro, there’s no documentation yet for running Deep Live Cam on Linux. This method is more private than using phone numbers since you can do this with disposable emails.