I've always hated giving my phone number to sites, even when it's ostensibly only for recovery purposes. Even worse are the sites/apps which refuse to let you

I've always hated giving my phone number to sites, even when it's ostensibly only for recovery purposes. Even worse are the sites/apps which refuse to let you make an account without one. I remember Facebook getting busted for the same thing so this just goes to further confirm my suspicion that this type of practice is more widespread than most companies would like to acknowledge.