That’s basically the point though. Websites ask for your phone number because it’s the easiest way to limit abuse. Eventually everyone has a phone number, and very few have ways to create multiple.
That’s basically the point though. Websites ask for your phone number because it’s the easiest way to limit abuse. Eventually everyone has a phone number, and very few have ways to create multiple.
> Eventually everyone has a phone number, and very few have ways to create multiple.
I agree that having a phone number often comes with a paper trail in many jurisdiction, but surely it's not common to make it hard to have multiple such numbers?
It's not unusual for someone to have a home landline phone, a personal cell phone, a work landline, and a work cell phone.
In fact it's so common that people in the snooping business already know ways to correlate them.
It's not hard to have multiple, but it's hard to have on-demand throwaway ones.
> the easiest way to limit abuse
It's also an almost perfect way to limit use (excluding the right people).