“Wise, I absolutely agree. There is no reason why they should need a phone number.”
I still did it. I figure they were in a no win situation. Without a valid verification they can’t stop Bots. Think of what happened on Twitter where half of their users are bots. Elon knows they have been lying to SEC.
“Think of what happened on Twitter where half of their users are bots.”
That was internal with purpose, not external. They use keyword algorithms and AI to operate internally created bots.
Know how we keep robo machine bots out of our forum registration with 100% accuracy?
Q&A
“A country leader was assassinated in 1963. Who then killed his assassin?:”
And having all bot access and SEO apps shut off... And even so the search engine crawlers and spiders still found us within four days after we had it up.
Unfortunately there are a lot of misconceptions of how the tech truly works. Much of it based on rumor and lack of knowledge.