Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat

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BuT cOrPoRaTiOnS tRaCk YoUr LoCaTiOn If yOu GiVe ThEm YouR nUmBeR

Like they’d need your phone number to do that when you probably already have a smartphone with Facebook installed

Some of us don’t install proprietary software…

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i was pointing at lay-user of smartphones that don’t want to give facebook or google their phone number while they are already spied on by countless companies with Google and Meta among them,

same people probably have pasted some appropriate clause on their facebook

when you probably already have a smartphone with Facebook Play Store/Services installed

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that was vaguely implied by “smarphone”

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