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Re:Removing email registration improved retention by petercooper on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:49PM (#24434056)
Phone number, I guess. Sending SMS messages en masse is expensive or heavily regulated in much of the world and it doesn't particularly suit frequent "spamming" so people of a younger generation may be more willing to hand it over(?)
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Re:Removing email registration improved retention by chrisco255 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:30PM (#24434563)
That hasn't been true lately. Lately I'm getting spammed at least a dozen times a day by SMS.
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Re:Removing email registration improved retention by c22 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:40PM (#24434668)
Yeah, I have a number that I "hand over" and another number I don't. The public number is inundated with spam SMS to the point that I don't even bother checking them anymore. And this is with pretty conservative behavior: even though I have a dedicated number for this purpose I still avoid entering it unless I absolutely have to.
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