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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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.
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.