> I mean, I could even understand implementing it initially out of convenience, but it's been years and they still haven't provided a means for authenticating with the service without using a means that will publicly identify you. As much as I wish to believe otherwise, I do not think this is unintentional :-( And if it's not unintentional, I'd really like to understand the reason.
That’s precisely what bugs me about these platforms. They all want to create the “social graph” based on phone numbers without giving the option to the user on how they want to expose themselves and how they want to construct their social graph.
That’s precisely what bugs me about these platforms. They all want to create the “social graph” based on phone numbers without giving the option to the user on how they want to expose themselves and how they want to construct their social graph.