[chespinoza]

I abandoned my account some weeks ago when they where forcing me to add my phone number in order to log in.

[quickthrower2]

Curtains open.... "But it's for security!"

[Gigachad]

It's for bot prevention. Phone number verification is the most effective anti bot tool around. It just sucks for privacy and legitimate alt accounting.

I have a grandparent who lost their password to skype, microsoft rejected the password/email reset request, but also blocks them from creating a new account because the phone number is attached to the previous account.