Why would you be expected to use a real phone number to build tools? There’s no reason to make development of tools less private than it could otherwise be, esp

Why would you be expected to use a real phone number to build tools? There’s no reason to make development of tools less private than it could otherwise be, especially when all the privacy loss is on one side of the exchange. You need to provide a legitimate justification or the assumption that it’s for some weird data harvesty thing holds.