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Having to give a phone number to join the waitlist is not so nice. Can’t think of any good reason not to accept an email.
by antipotoad 4y ago
Having to give a phone number to join the waitlist is not so nice. Can’t think of any good reason not to accept an email.
- squokko 4y agoEasier for one person to spin up 1000 emails than 1000 phone numbers.
- taftster 4y agoReally? That's crazy. At least at one point, spinning up phone numbers was significantly harder and much more deterrent against account generators than was email addresses. What has changed to make phone numbers easier to generate and email addresses harder?
- jefftk 4y agoI think you mean the other way around?
- squokko 4y agoYes, edited
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- mcast 4y agoWhy not? It allows the company to easily tailor its algorithms and content towards a user's political/religious/geographic views. Surely that would never be abused! /s
- ro_bit 4y agoLuckily this seems to be one of the rare places on the internet where a VOIP number works
- rchaud 4y agoThey're pre-revenue with no ad product yet. They really just need the numbers to show investors how much interest there is. Once they actually have to leverage that phone number info, you can be sure that whatever you signed up with won't work anymore.