Create a better 'safety' system than requiring a phone number which is a very personal and private piece of information
Giving our phone numbers to you has proven unsafe and I believe will be shown again to be unsafe again in the future with leaks or the potential to sell our personal information.
With that being said, I have noticed that we cannot even follow some channels without giving you such a personal piece of information.
I strongly ask for a better system that guarantees not only streamer's safety but also viewers, one where we do not have to give a piece of personal information we do not want to give you or we can't as in some cases phone numbers from certain areas do not work or some folks do not have phones.
Restricting follows to requiring a phone number also makes no sense since chatting already has safety protections and viewers can be banned so as to not allow for watching streams anyway. See my other uservoice for more information about safety and requiring phone numbers: https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310201-chat/suggestions/47297159-remove-verified-requirement-from-whispers
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