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Unless you're my mother, or maybe if you're part of my immediate family, you're not getting my phone number. American giant corporation with questionable ethic
by encom 6y ago
Unless you're my mother, or maybe if you're part of my immediate family, you're not getting my phone number.
American giant corporation with questionable ethics: hard no.
- 5560675260 6y agoYeah, I had to get a separate number just to please twitter's automation. Their approach is somewhat understandable - stopping bots is a hard problem, phone number in theory represents a material cost and a hurdle to someone who wants to rapidly register thousands of new accounts.
- iso1210 6y agoDon't you have a burner phone/sim for these types of requests?
- encom 6y agoThis is brought up every time this subject is discussed. Is a burner phone a normal thing that regular people have? But no, I don't have a burner phone. I'm not going to buy a phone and a SIM just as some kind of non-solution to tech companies having a hard-on for invading peoples privacy.
- iso1210 6y agoI have an old phone (who doesn't) which I leave plugged in on my desk, with a £5 payg sim card.