No more mandatory phone number verification.
This has been posted before and will likely fall on deaf ears again because there's money involved. But here I go trying anyway.
Stop requiring users to hand over their phone numbers just to chat. I know bot problems are a convenient excuse to force this on people, but I still don't agree with it.
I'm a paying customer. Have been for years now. Why do I still need to prove my authenticity by giving Twitch my phone number? Oh I know. Because data-brokers pay well.
Let me put it this way: If I'm paying money for a service and I'm being prevented from using it until I also pay with information, doesn't that qualify as extortion?
Just something to think about. I'll go watch VODs on YouTube now. Peace.
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