Many apps and services now demand a phone number, sometimes lying about suspicious activity or security problems to get you to cough it up. Others wait until yo

Many apps and services now demand a phone number, sometimes lying about suspicious activity or security problems to get you to cough it up. Others wait until you've been using the service to spring it on you so they have more leverage to squeeze it out of you. Many of these services will also block signing up with throwaway email providers, of course Apple's service would require them to block to many "legit" users so it remains a good choice. The ones taking your phone number usually block land lines and voip providers, some even block prepaid mobile plans! Meanwhile they lose your PI and shrug their shoulders or blame the users, but if you try to protect yourself from their garbage security the decide you must be a bad actor for practicing compartmentalization to limit the blast radius of their inevitable screw ups. It isn't like there is punishment for them screwing up so there's no reason for them to not take everything they can get.