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		swirepe on July 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Telegram Passport I think everyone wants phone numbers to prevent people generating billions of accounts to spam people with.

Kadin on July 27, 2018 [–]

That seems like a pretty crummy way to solve that particular problem.

swirepe on July 27, 2018 | | [–]

What would be a better way, do you think?

cdmckay on July 27, 2018 | | [–]

So crummy that WhatsApp built a billion dollar company on it. It seems like a good-enough solution to me.

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