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They require you to have a phone number. I don't get why this is a bad thing for a social media site. They aren't collecting your phone number to sell it. They
by impulser_ 3y ago
They require you to have a phone number. I don't get why this is a bad thing for a social media site. They aren't collecting your phone number to sell it. They are collecting it because it an easy way to lower bot, spam, and ban envision accounts. Plus it adds basic security to user accounts. I'm pretty sure every social media site requires a phone number.
- richbell 3y ago> They aren't collecting your phone number to sell it. They are collecting it because it an easy way to lower bot, spam, and ban envision accounts. Both can be possible. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/you-gave-facebook-your-number-security-they-used-it-ads https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/you-gave-facebook-your...
- softbt 3y agoThey can sell it
- 0x_rs 3y ago>They aren't collecting your phone number to sell it. There's unfortunately quite a number of bad precedents that suggest this can be the case, regardless of the ToS. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/twitter-pays-150m-fine-for-using-two-factor-login-details-to-target-ads/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/twitter-pays-150...