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TekMol[dead post] ◴[] No.43163248[source]
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jonas21 ◴[] No.43163279[source]
> Why would my phone number be any of their business?

Preventing abuse? It's much harder to create a throwaway phone number than a throwaway email address.

> OpenAI does the logical thing. Let's me enter my credit card and I'm good to go. I will stay with them.

You'd rather hand over your credit card than your phone number? I think most people would see it the other way around.

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1. pseudocomposer ◴[] No.43163374[source]
Many credit card companies make it easy to generate one-off card numbers/“virtual cards” you can use to subscribe to services that are hard to cancel or otherwise questionable (so you can cancel just the card you used for that company).