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Re:Prove email and phone are required in online services by hitpointdrew on Friday March 24, 2023 @10:32AM (#35289552)
I think the point is NOT to identify users, but only to not have spam/bots. Unless it’s a paid service, users should not have to identify themselves. You can keep out bots with CAPTCHA.
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Re:Prove email and phone are required in online services by i_see_things on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:01AM (#35289928)
Users should not have to identify themselves regardless of the service being paid or free. Because stopping spam and bots is possible without requiring the user to provide an email or a phone number.

Nobody cares about anything.

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Re:Prove email and phone are required in online services by mattl on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:13AM (#35290111)
How do you propose password resets work without an email address or phone number?
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Re:Prove email and phone are required in online services by numtel on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:44PM (#35293690)
Could use Sign In With Ethereum using a social recovery wallet but I don't think all the pieces are ready yet.
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Re:Prove email and phone are required in online services by hitpointdrew on Saturday March 25, 2023 @05:33AM (#35301005)
How do you purpose Netflix, Salseforce, etc. charge their clients if they don’t even know who their clients are?

Please don’t say crypto.

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