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Note to anyone that cares: Make your data as stale as possible: you can't change your address easily, sure. But you can recycle phone numbers (once a year, minimum). Change your credit/debit cards yearly (say to your bank you 'lost' it). When ordering online, always, always, always use a fake number, it's not required. Always use a fake name where possible. Sure, you need to provide that as a 'billing' address, but i…
I'm completely unsurprised that my phone number is in there despite the fact that I deleted and closed my account 10 years ago.
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I've been using a MySudo phone number to use for signups when I'm forced to give out one. Has reduced the noise i get in my messages for my real number https://mysudo.com
Are they not blocked for being VoIP?
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And Facebook will promptly ignore that too: https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/
1. That article is about downloading, not deleting. 2. You don't negotiate with Facebook, you norify the regulators so they can asses another billion-euro fine.
Answer under the GDPR is probably: 0EUR.
A note for people with US numbers who aren't finding their info: > And finally, one last note on the data load process: At the time of publishing this blog post, all phone numbers beginning with international codes 4, 6, 8 and 8 have completed loading. The other codes are in progress and may take several hours more before they're searchable. US numbers begin with international code 1, and it seems that they aren't ye…
Thanks. For anybody getting a miss and wondering if they messed up the formatting, my US number is coming up now, formatted with a vanilla +1-123-456-7890.
Getting to the point where we’re going to need phone, email, and SMS to be deny all by default. Can’t reach me unless you’re information is already in my contacts.
It's a hard problem to crack. Some legitimate places need to be able to call you without you knowing them ahead of time. Say your sibling was mugged in Mexico and the local little police station let them borrow the landline to call the only number they still remember without having to check their contacts in their phone. Are you not going to pick up? There are a lot of these little edge-cases. Journalists, lawyers re…
Getting to the point where we’re going to need phone, email, and SMS to be deny all by default. Can’t reach me unless you’re information is already in my contacts.
I get a lot of value out of being reachable by people I do not yet know.
Found my number on there too even though I've deleted Facebook for at least 5 or 6 years now -_- Not sure when I gave them my number either, I hope it wasn't scraped from someone else's contact list... At least it makes sense why I received a bunch of spam calls over the weekend. Anyway it's probably good practice to recycle your number every few years, and not use it for 2FA to make switching numbers a lot easier. W…
"Anyway it's probably good practice to recycle your number every few years, and not use it for 2FA to make switching numbers a lot easier." Ironically Twilio of all places forced SMS 2FA on all accounts earlier this year. As in, one day you could no longer log into your twilio account without giving them a phone number. You are locked out until you do. Ironic in a few ways ... First, twilio numbers are not mobile num…