minus-squareFrostyPolicy@suppo.fitoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Discord requiring you to add a phone number **after** the creation of your accountlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 days ago This is or was part of their anti-spam/flooding protection. That’s the official explanation. A phone number is a nice way to attach a real world identity to the data (which of course is sold to advertisers/data brokers etc). linkfedilink
minus-squareFrostyPolicy@suppo.fitoTechnology@lemmy.world•Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | TutalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoIt’s all Fediverse. You can follow things on lemmy on mastodon and vice versa and so on. linkfedilink
That’s the official explanation. A phone number is a nice way to attach a real world identity to the data (which of course is sold to advertisers/data brokers etc).