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<h2><b>If a service requires your phone number, they are against your Anonymity</b></h2> </br> </br>
<p>If a chat service requires you to enter your phone number, it means they categorically refuse that you can use their service anonymously. Moreover, <b>it means that they want to be able to inform the authorities of your actions</b>, and rest assured that <b>LE will pay big money for that sensitive info they may have of your actions.</b></p>
<p>Yes, you heard me correctly. <b>If a service asks for your phone number, they are anti-privacy and anti-anonymity by design</b>. This means that you can already stop using the following services:
<p>Yes, you heard me correctly. <b>If a service asks for your phone number, they are anti-anonymity by design</b>. This means that you can already stop using the following services:
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Signal <a href="https://www.signal.org/">markets itself as providing Privacy</a>, yet, it requires a phone number upon signup<a href="https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/194">[1]</a><a href="https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/1085">[2]</a>, for more reasons to stop using Signal, check out these blogposts <a href="https://bencrypted.gitlab.io/post/8/">[1]</a> <a href="https://digital-justice.com/articles/skip-signal.html">[2]</a>
Telegram <a href="https://telegram.org">also markets itself as providing privacy</a>, yet it <a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-create-account-on-telegram/">also requires a phone number upon signup</a>
Signal, is a centralised service that requires a phone number upon signup<a href="https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/194">[1]</a><a href="https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/1085">[2]</a>, see also <a href="https://bencrypted.gitlab.io/post/8/">[3]</a> <a href="https://digital-justice.com/articles/skip-signal.html">[4]</a>
Telegram, is a centralised service that <a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-create-account-on-telegram/">also requires a phone number upon signup</a>, on top of being forced to comply to EU demands as of 2024.
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<p>When you take into consideration how phone numbers harm your Privacy and Anonymity as i listed above, <b>Nothing can can possibly justify requiring a phone number upon sign up.</b></p>
<p>When you take into consideration how phone numbers harm your Anonymity as i listed above, <b>Nothing can can possibly justify requiring a phone number upon sign up.</b></p>
<p> The only reason for such a requirement, is that <b>the service takes bribes from LE, for successfully lying that their users are safe.</b> Make no mistake, the bigger the service, the more lucrative it is!</p>
<p>Now if you want to be able to communicate anonymously with someone online, use <a href="https://simplex.chat">SimpleX</a>, and tell them to use it too with <a href="../anonsimplex/index.html">this tutorial</a>.</p>
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