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The purpose of using phone numbers in many of todays services, is to shift the work of validating the authenticity of the user to carriers. Of course this has g
by chickenimprint 5y ago
The purpose of using phone numbers in many of todays services, is to shift the work of validating the authenticity of the user to carriers. Of course this has given rise to inumerable vendors of accounts or forged prepaid cards, but it raises the barrier just enough to make mass cheating, boosting, spamming unprofitable.
- 64bit_xombie 5y agoBut the benefit of curbing spam doesnt outweigh the cost of abatement of privacy. Though more of my issue is being forced to have it on a phone, when I only want to use from my laptop.
- Irongirl1 5y agoAnd I'm assuming that if you don't have a phone (like me) that you can't use it at all? No phone, no phone number...or would a burner number work?