[ThinkBeat]

Thank you. That saves me from having to spend time to figure out the same thing.

I hope soon some technological development will allow VoIP or any virtual type phonenumber to pass as a SIM verified number (or however it is done).

Everyone wanting your phone number is a huge privacy issue and it makes tracing you across platforms is more trivial than it should be.

Which of course is a good part of the reason companies do this.

In Norway, as far as I have figured out, anonymous burner phones is not possible due to laws requirng the buyer to show valid governmnent id that will be registered at the time of purchase.

You can pay someone else to buy it for you, but that has other issues,.

[ericbanter]

Surely providing your phone number ensures you are at least somewhat unique and unless you have access to a plethora of telephone numbers it’s a little more difficult to abuse the system?