Nice to see some progress has been made in your endeavors. 
How do I âfollow the password reset proceduresâ?
Go to ICQ â stay connected without your account logged in, and if a day has passed since youâve registered the ICQ account, enter in your phone number (or UIN) and the following CAPTCHA to receive a confirmation code to set your own password.
The reason I say a day after youâve registered your ICQ account is because otherwise, ICQ will tell you to do so. 
Does it work if 2 or more days have passed?
yes
Minimum wait time after registration is 1 day. After that, you can wait in all the time you need before you feel like resetting your password.
how the hec could you fail this
the creative captcha is⌠worse at protection? idk
is that it?
(itâs bland, and only gets worse that the Request SMS button can cause you to think there is more)
it used to be thisâŚ
(notice how you donât need a number, and this is the full form)
ICQ today tries to mow under modern messengers, requiring entering a phone number.
Please explain why they thought itâd be a good idea to set a mystery password and not even telling you what it is, leaving you no other choice but to wait a day until you can use the password recovery scheme.
They made it that way because they donât think very well and the fact that the iCQ system is now owned by Russia. the system is now a klutz product of the world (Joking). but of course itâs a good one, just not the upgrade to it. a lots of us donât want to be using a phone to sign up to services. some of us donât afford phones and some of just simply donât have a phone. they need a better sign up. 
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Basically why I never even bothered to register for an ICQ to see for myself if UINs were still around. 
Also as Iâm typing this I have 12 more hours until I can add a password to my ICQ. WooâŚ
Guess what? It passed almost 1 year since i registered my ICQ with the phone number and it says i canât reset the passwordâŚ
even google have joined that group now.
even google have joined that group now.
ok but google doesnât just force their new customers to use a phone for sign up. they have requested an extra email address too.
make another one without a phone number and just a email address and you will see that they donât force their customers to use a phone number for making an account. I did it myself recently and I never had to use the phone for google accounts.
when i made my ice.ice one it asked for activation
ok my point is that they donât. point made
Blue?
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