Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat

  • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍
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    111 year ago

    BuT cOrPoRaTiOnS tRaCk YoUr LoCaTiOn If yOu GiVe ThEm YouR nUmBeR

    Like they’d need your phone number to do that when you probably already have a smartphone with Facebook installed

    • @library_napper
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      1 year ago

      Some of us don’t install proprietary software…

      • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍
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        1 year ago

        i was pointing at lay-user of smartphones that don’t want to give facebook or google their phone number while they are already spied on by countless companies with Google and Meta among them,

        same people probably have pasted some appropriate clause on their facebook