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> I'm so sick of this kind of victim blaming, you're forced to add a phone number to use twitter. I had some old accounts that did not require a phone number.
by traceroute66 4y ago
> I'm so sick of this kind of victim blaming, you're forced to add a phone number to use twitter.
I had some old accounts that did not require a phone number.
At least until I wanted to enable TOTP 2FA.
At which point the numnuts at Twitter would not just let me "just" enable TOTP, I was forced to provide a phone number (which, to add insult to injury, for at long time they refused to accept because they would only send messages to a limited number of carriers).
- gojomo 4y agoAnd then Twitter misused authentication phone numbers for marketing: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/05/twitter-pay-150-million-penalty-allegedly-breaking-its-privacy-promises-again https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/05/twitter-p... And also used a sketchy service provider who was selling personal info about Twitter users to governments: https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/09/twitter-2fa-text-privacy/ https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/09/twitter-2fa-text-privacy/ Twitter has been habitually careless with user info & user privacy.
- MoebiusStrip 4y agoTwitter decides when to hit you with the demand for a phone number. Try sh!itposting for a couple weeks. That usually does the trick. This may be Twitter's best anti-bot measure, although state-sponsored troll farms will likely be able to afford all the SIM cards they want and need.