"Give us your phone number or we will hold your minecraft account ransom"

Happened to me every time I ever made a Microsoft account. It works for one day, then some fraud process runs overnight and if I try to use it the next day I need a phone number. Good thing I first discovered this on a throwaway account.

Remember when people were allowed to share phone numbers? Like it was actually the norm

Remember when we didn't live in a panopticon? Pepperidge Farm remembers.