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Is there a way to join telegram without giving them my phone number? That just feels like a honeypot/dataleak waiting to happen.
by thepasswordis 5y ago
Is there a way to join telegram without giving them my phone number?
That just feels like a honeypot/dataleak waiting to happen.
- tenryuu 5y agoNo
- kleiba 5y agoThat would be a no-go for me too... if I had a phone number. These days, it's actually surprisingly hard to get a free email account without having to provide a phone number.
- zht 5y agohow do you live life without a phone number?
- heleninboodler 5y agoI'd guess "blissfully"
- gleenn 5y agoI did it for a year in Japan, not easy but doable. I also hate giving out my phone number. It's just another way for companies to track users.
- kleiba 5y agoI've never had a phone. I suppose it's harder if I ever had one but since I never had to give up the conveniences, I don't really have a problem with it.
- kleiba 5y agoI'm old.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y agoI just made an anonymous phone number at textnow.
- kleiba 5y agoHow did you sign up to textnow without an email address?
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y agowith email address, of course
- manquer 5y agoYou can use a VOIP number or a Google Voice number or Call/SMS forwarding services, you don't have to use your actual number.
- SergeAx 5y agoThose 70m are mostly Whatsapp users, so...)
- AdamHominem 5y agoIt's a UAE company with a custom encryption protocol, e2ee off by default, and no e2ee for group chat. You're damn right it's a honeypot. Use Signal or Element/Matrix.
- EastOfTruth 5y agoDoesn't Signal also require a phone number?