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Re:Some Indian Twitter users are leaving for Mastodon by rgrs on Friday November 08, 2019 @05:25AM (#21481107)
Then let these companies guarantee that its one-time request and it will not be used for pushing anything else.
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Re:Some Indian Twitter users are leaving for Mastodon by RandomBacon on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:20AM (#21482343)
Just like FB promised phone numbers were only going to be used for 2FA?

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/05/facebook-critici...

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Re:Some Indian Twitter users are leaving for Mastodon by marssaxman on Friday November 08, 2019 @03:34PM (#21486437)
What guarantee could they possibly offer which we would believe? Of course they will exploit any information they can convince us to hand over.
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