I personally am fine with this.

  • Otome-chan
    link
    fedilink
    510 months ago

    there’s quite a lot of services that want phone for verification/2fa/whatever. whenever I run into them I usually just refuse to use the service altogether.

    • Dandroid
      link
      fedilink
      410 months ago

      How do you even use the internet? I mean, you could never book a flight, use any food rewards program, book a ride share, etc. Almost everything uses my phone number for 2FA.

      • NaN
        link
        fedilink
        English
        410 months ago

        Yes banks are terrible about this, and it makes no sense

      • Otome-chan
        link
        fedilink
        210 months ago

        what happens if you don’t have a phone number? you’re just prevented from having a bank account?

        • @totallynotarobot@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          2
          edit-2
          10 months ago

          You can have a bank account, but you wouldn’t be able to do online or mobile banking.

          Sms is the only 2fa option (some offer email as well, but last I checked all fall back on sms), and it’s mandatory for online/mobile.