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Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID (notthesolution.substack.com)
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[–] AA5B 3 points 4 hours ago

When I give out my email, I always get spam, regardless of how many boxes I uncheck.

When I give out my phone number, sometimes I don’t

Of course that no longer makes sense since I have one phone number I can’t easily change, but give out uniquely generated emails that I can individually turn off