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Your requirement to use software is based around whether or not it requires your phone number for verification?
Man some people draw really weird lines.
What makes it a weird line for them to draw?
are you in the uk? Cause that might make a difference. I'm in the US and a lot of apps use phone numbers for log in.
I understand a large number of apps request phone number to log in, but that doesn't explain why it's a weird line to draw to not engage with that.
so you don't understand that it's been normalized?
That's why its a weird line to draw. Cause its considered normal here.
I understand it's been normalized. I'm trying to figure out my hangup with the word "weird"... I guess ultimately I don't consider it weird for someone to stand against something that's normalized.
I mean, I agree with that for some things. Like I think its fucking weird that people do celebrity worship, but that's also considered pretty normal.
but I think in the case of using your phone number to sign in, it's normalized because its been shown to work as a log in/sign up method. In the US phone numbers are treated like a form of ID as you're assumed to have a phone in your name, that can be attached to you and your identity. It's so common place that it's encouraged to do things that way - so its weird to draw the line there because its then also preventing you from using something, even though the only hold up is that it's something most people do with no issue.