It says it sent a verification code to the phone number I entered. The phone number I entered is a landline because it's the only phone I have. Usually places that want to send me a verification code will give me the option to either receive a text, or a phone call. Somebody please tell Donald J Trump that not all of us own cell phones.
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Don’t join. Simple.
I gotta join if everybody is moving over there.
If any internet service want your phone number - it is a total shit. In no way any internet service need your phone number to work. Never needed, do not need now and never will need.
Putting away the thing with "identification" (AKA surveillance) crap, amount of collected phone numbers become de-facto standard for evaluating the market price of service. So, any service asking your phone number is a profit-maiking one.
And when you get something from profit-making service for free, you absolutely not a user, you are a commodity.
So, any service asking for your phone number should be avoided without exception by any sane human.
I'm assuming they're asking for the phone number to make sure we're human.
I despise the idea of linking real life information to online accounts.
They are at a disadvantage. Groups will send illegal porn if they can do it without getting caught.
There are a lot of another ways to do it without any problems. But only phone numbers accounted as valid for different stock traders and other market swindlers.
As for other ways to identify humans, I personally like ones used f.e. on some electronics forums, where you are presented a circuit drawing and have to describe how it works in words. It is both effective in rejecting bots and works as a perfect filter for really useful users.
Or not gay. I heard gays don’t use phones also I heard niggers throw shit at each other when they are kids.
I've had a similar issue getting my computer out of "S" mode. Microsoft only gives a text message option and won't allow me to enter a different phone number, so they keep sending a text to my land line. I hate them because tech support was worthless
I realize bots are a problem, but I refuse to give a phone number.
Requiring a cellphone number is a technique to confirm identity and limit bots. Bots are a serious problem everywhere now and it will only get worse. This solution has its own problems, but I understand why they are doing it for now.
A honey trap with Israeli censorship built-in, built by a crime family front, a narcissist idiot who gave us the Warp Speed Juice.
Why on earth would you even want to try it out?