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Mandatory phone number has become the latest plague. Not only the phone number is mandatory but many sites now pretend to 2FA without user enabling the setting
by 404mm 3y ago
Mandatory phone number has become the latest plague. Not only the phone number is mandatory but many sites now pretend to 2FA without user enabling the setting - or even worse, don’t use password and only send codes via SMS.
- jkubicek 3y agoMost services that require a phone number don't use it for anything. Unless I know they're going to be texting me about something, I just type random digits.
- yomlica8 3y agoThat hasn't been my experience. Most services that demand a phone number lock you out if you don't cough one up, and reject VoIP and temporary service numbers. Some of them even reject prepaid numbers now. Microsoft recently extorted my cell number out of me so I could keep using my paid for minecraft account.
- ranger_danger 3y agoThe plague of banking and financial instutions ONLY allowing/forcing the use of SMS 2FA should be illegal. It's way more common than it should be.