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This is a good reason to use a service like Burner ( https://www.burnerapp.com/ ), and also probably to cycle your GSM handset number at your carrier multiple times per year, as TFA notes. (Switch to TOTP or U2F for two factor.)

I already use anonymous single-use email addresses for a lot of services (anonaddy.com is good for this), and I think in the future I'm going to just decline to use anything that demands a phone number of me. Far, far too much of it is being sold to third parties as soon as it's obtained by these companies.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your...



Ironic that the service that's supposed to protect my privacy redirects me to a tracker (adjust.io) when trying to download their app. I'm also willing to bet good money the app itself will have creepy tracking built-in.




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