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It is possible to just not use a phone number. I mostly connect through Signal. I do technically have a phone number that my close friends and family have, but its a random VoIP number that I usually change every year or so. Surprisingly no one has really cared, I send out a text that I got a new number and that's that.
How? Most of the services I use, from Walgreens to banks to retirement accounts, require a phone number either for 2FA or just to verify that you’re you when signing up. After changing my phone number this year and having to go through the rigamarole for each service, I decided never again.
I just change those when I get a new number, its usually just a matter of getting a text confirmation code from them to verify the new number.
I change passwords every year or two. That's really a pain, at this point its somewhere around 30 or so accounts I have to go through and update.
One big privacy issue is that there is no sane way to protect your contact details from being sold, regardless of what you do. As soon as your cousin clicks "Yes, I would like to share the entire contents of my contacts with you" when they launch TikTok your name, phone number, email etc are all in the crowd. And I buy this stuff. Every time I need customer service and I'm getting stonewalled I just go onto a marketp…
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> The rules should apply to the ones foisting this system upon us as well. This is probably the only way to make anyone in power reconsider current setup. Unless your problem is with the company doing the privacy violations, this doesn’t make any sense.
Pretty much all companies are doing the privacy violations. You think your doctors office doesn't sell their contact list?
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If you're using iOS you can set certain contacts to bypass silent mode so that you still hear their notifications/calls. I know it doesn't help with unknown numbers, but just saying in case you're not aware. I'd be surprised if you can't do the same on Android.
Yes, thanks, I've configured that for kids and other loved ones. But I can't pick up anything else, even sales people from India manage to use a number that appears local (in The Netherlands for me), so I might miss a call from the kid's school.
Let it be known, having an app to do something which used to be doable by a website is to me a red flag. Although I refuse to install anything other than what I genuinely trust.
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Have you looked at the latest JS standards?
what is contained in the latest js standard that does let you collect fine grained information of your users without their consent? web apis that have to deal with sensitive data all requires explicit user confirmation to be used
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> Lastly, does your insurance shoot up if you have a car without one of these systems? This question I can answer with a reasonable degree of certainty; no, it does not. Insurance companies increase rates for automobile coverage for many reasons, real or illusionary. But "does your insurance shoot up" strictly for not having a recording device in a vehicle is not one of them. Do some insurance companies charge less w…
> Do some insurance companies charge less when provided access to policy owner driving patterns which the companies infer reduce their risk? Sure. > But that is a different question. In what way? A discount for allowing surveillance is identical to an extra charge for disallowing it. They're identical, unless the "base" rate is set externally somehow. $5 for lemonade, $3 off if you skip the lemon == $2 for sugar wate…
I don't think this is necessarily true. You're right that there's an unknown base rate, but that means you can't say what you're saying as well. And if you have other companies that offer non-driving-pattern policies as well, and they're a similar price, you can see it's a discount not an added cost.
In fact, regardless, other companies are your best bet in combatting rising prices for any reason.