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Buge on July 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: If you've nothing to hide, you've got nothing to f...

The real reason they ask for mobile number is to stop spammers creating a ton of accounts.

psykovsky on July 11, 2015 [–]

Or maybe that was just a convenient excuse at the time. Now they present me a screen to input my phone number every time I login. I choose to ignore it.

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