This occurs because some platforms sell real phone numbers that haven’t been registered on Telegram(or other platforms require phone number or email to register), as well as email addresses.
We should be cautious about sharing our phone number or email address online. Once it’s out there, it can be challenging to erase, cuz they are all saved in a cloud server, and keeping everything in one place is easy for hacker to attack(don’t ask me y).
Now, Twitter/X requires users to verify their ID From my perspective, the digital realm should remain separate from our offline lives. Internet exists because it offers us capabilities that are restricted in the physical world.
People should really start to migrate. I only use Twitter for daily news check, for other communication or disscussion needs.
What are you guys using for these services? I use WireMin, cuz it is decentralized, which means no central cloud server to keep our data, and not require personal info to create an ID.
True, registering with just a username and password was much more privacy-focused, cuz at least we don’t need to hand out our personal info.
While tech companies claim they use phone number/email verification for enhanced security, the reality is that they often expose our personal information to advertisers and provide hackers with more valuable data. This is especially concerning when everything is stored on a central cloud server.
Thank got, we have decentralized IMs available rn. While using the old way to register and having top-tier security because of the decentralized nature, messages are sent peer-to-peer n end-to-end, ensuring that data like chat histories and passwords are stored only on our devices.
Which ones exactly? I can think only of Tox (for messages being sent p2p), but nobody’s using it.