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by suslik 933 days ago
That can be achieved through anonimity. I don't understand why companies have to know who I am in such detail. Every little website requires my phone number, SSN, retina patterns and the name of my childhood pet. If I could use 23andme under the pen name "Ivar the Boneless" and pay for it with a bit of cash in an envelope (or crypto), the current problem wouldn't exist.

Tools like Telegram or Signal do not allow creating accounts without having a valid phone number. Of course, it is possible to use a web service to receive the registration SMS, but that shouldn't be the case in the first place.