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Asking for your email is somewhat understandable, but asking for your phone number ?

I don't believe that sites that ask for this really are alternatives to the big techs like Google and Facebook.

I liked Ruqqus and Poal for not asking or needing email, much less phone number.

Asking for your email is somewhat understandable, but asking for your phone number ? I don't believe that sites that ask for this really are alternatives to the big techs like Google and Facebook. I liked Ruqqus and Poal for not asking or needing email, much less phone number.

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I might use gab.

Never been asked for my phone #.

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To track you and report on you to their masters.

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To show you that there is no such thing as 'an alternative' and that every single one of them is out to make money.

Just like a fuckload of websites that bring you 'breaking news' about the 'real' happenings but push you to buy their book or pay for membership.

If its critical for the world to know then to demand payment for the knowledge is intellectual extortion, like those fucking idiots that claimed they were going to drop the data from some massive hack they did but only if someone paid them first but the money totally wasnt for the data it was to cover the costs of the data while everyone else knew a) they didnt have the data and b) wouldnt drop shit if you paid them even if they did.... or big pharma totally not earning a single dime of profit on the covid experimental therapy then doing the exact opposite.

If you have to ask, then its a scam. Its pretty simple.

Treat everything on the internet as public, no matter how 'careful' you think you are, youre not safe, youre not private, youre just handing over money to continue the illusion that youre safe.

hurrrr muh vpns yeah no you can still get tracked through them and well gee whillakers mr wilson how ever did the clowns work out just from my social media posts on 50 different websites who i am and where i am when i totally had a vpn hiding where i posted all those photos and checkings from hyuk hyuk. (thats the biggest mistake fucking idiots make when theyre pulling disability or welfare scams, they dont give a fuck about your ip, they have their own ways of linking everything you do up and working it out from there. And just like you can work out where someones at from a TOR exit point you can do the same for any VPN, which is extra speshul because the only thing a vpn exit point does is say you are one of tens of thousands.... who use one specific VPN, and if theres only a handful of that vpns customers in your area weeeeelllll what do you think the next logical step is? Internet equivalent of tracking down a specific driver from a partial license plate and a half ass description of a car. Or something like 'it was this car not this car because this car has a locked diff and would have caused burnouts on BOTH sides of the road, not just one, so its a X year of this model instead of Y year' - forensics will fuck you every time.

dont say anything online you would say in front of a cop.

be open in threatening violence on the premier of victoria because hes a fucking pedophile who needs to be fed into woodchippers. either im already fucked beyond all belief and all this is being tracked and someone is going to eventually try and fuck me up or im just as protected now against evil as i always have been. either way i dont give a fuck.

fight me AFP.

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Does AFP mean Away From Phone? lol

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He's an Aussie, so it'd be the Australian federal police.

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Why do cattle get branded?

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If they're putting up a wall and asking for personal information in order to get through it with no other option, then they clearly have other ulterior motives that they're not being truthful with you about.

They need something to use against you if you don't toe their line. They'll dox you with it, scam you with it, give your name up to whoever's asking for it... etc.

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Any online service which demands a phone number can fuck the hell off. I'm not interested in giving out personal information which can identify me, to some random fuckwit who can't be trusted with that data.

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MeWe is owned by the CCP I think....

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I'm pretty sure that was the site John Cena used to apologize to china.

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I hear them Chinese are the ones that killed Jesus.

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Who owns MeWe? The folks behind MeWe brand it as the “Next-Gen Social Network.” Their website promises “No Ads. No Spyware. No BS.” Sounds fancy enough, but what does that actually mean? And, perhaps more importantly, just who are those folks in the first place?

Although it has enjoyed a very recent surge in popularity, MeWe can actually trace its lineage all the way back to 1998. That’s when author and internet executive Mark Weinstein established a social media site called SuperGroups.com. Although SuperGroups was closed down in 2001, Weinstein gathered up a nearly identical leadership team and incorporated Sgrouples Inc. in 2011 (not nearly as catchy of a name, if you ask us!). Mark Weinstein is not only the founder of MeWe but also the CEO, though the network is technically owned by Culver City, Calif.-based Sgrouples Inc. As for who is a member of Sgrouples, well, that info is actually pretty difficult to come by.

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Gab doesn’t ask you for phone number. But they may ask for it when you want to get verified, not sure. Gab is definitely free from the influence of big tech. Andrew Torba is a great guy

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Gab never asked me for any of that stuff.

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Gab does not, that I am aware of

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They're alt in what they believe, not whether they ask for your phone number. Go to Twitter and sign up with a throw away email address. See how long you last before your account is locked and they're asking for a phone number.

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Walmart saves you money,you live better

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