Signup from console - still forced to prove email via browser

This bugged me quite a bit. I decided to go the console way and then suddenly, I was forced to go back to browser anyway. How about a console alternative? (Maybe there's one, but wasn't mentioned in the email?)

Start by tracing the console signup flow and the browser-based email-verification step described in the issue. Determine whether a console verification path already exists, then define the required alternative and verify that signup can complete without returning to the browser.

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