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by mcintyre1994 1795 days ago
Because they encourage users to upload their contacts so they can connect them on the platform. At one point when it was invite-only these uploaded contacts were the only way to invite friends.
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A fair share of my phone numbers are bogus(old numbers, info I store as a phone number even if its not) so the db extracted from here would be dubious