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Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is your mobile phone number in the phone book? Mine isn't. I guess you could use a landline number to prevent giving out information that isn't publicly available, but I'd wager most people using these sites these days use their mobile phones. Also even my landline isn't listed in the phone book.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I still have a landline which I use specifically for entering into websites.

At one point I thought it was a really clever thing to do, but now I'm not sure what I'm accomplishing with that, if anything.