Tbf, the amount of shit I fell for in the mid-late 2000s, is embarassing.

Floriant Rouanet

@Str3tch Careful, you have to MANUALLY disable showing your phone number to your contacts on Telegram

or it will show up when you contact them

he's a co-worker of Jérome Bourbon (editor of rivarol magazine)

i have a TG account, but i'm not a TG user

That's why I would not bother with Telegram unless it's in an emulator with a virtual phone number

Even those dont work half the time

No idea why people jump on Telegram

I don't use telegram

its is so doxable its not funny

It's basically a honeypot

there's an alternative called mastodon

but I don't use it either

you need a phone number for telegram?

Yes

https://mastodon.social/about

Kik got sold too

kuk

so now its is an ad-filled mess

Kik used to big a while ago

yeah, sucks now

isn't that a phone app

They lost tons of money and had to sell

I hate those social phone apps

now its ad riddled

What happended to ask.fm?

Why is it doxable

Because it requires your real phone number

Because of your phone number being displayed to your contacts

not just that they have it.. that they GIVE TO TO EVERYONE

@ScaredForLife ask.fm looks like a <:dumpsterfire:560131482581205052>

There’s no privacy setting?

Yeah, you can turn it off displaying

but they still have it on Telegrams end

btw

According to GDPR, the EU privacy law there should be a way to turn off displaying your phone number even if they have it

breaking news paypal broke their contract with pornhub

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Is that based or not

I don't know