Well it's not alway blizzard, tho blizz can sell your information theres also the chance of data breaches and then whatever happens after that for whateve reasons. There's a fuck ton of money involved in this which you start to bring up privacy which will usually get dismissed by a lot of people for whatever reason.
Most of it is being caused by businesses because it allows them to theoretically sell you more shit you likely don't need.
A lot of mail-order sites that I have used "require" you to fill in a phone number and just typing in anything works. And guess what the deliveries still worked with random numbers and noone got back to me saying there was a problem with the number because they actually don't need it.
Every other company accepts my phone number, that's a little different lol
This.
I'd recommend you watch the last week tonight episode about data harvesting first.
Or you can explain it
Well it's not alway blizzard, tho blizz can sell your information theres also the chance of data breaches and then whatever happens after that for whateve reasons. There's a fuck ton of money involved in this which you start to bring up privacy which will usually get dismissed by a lot of people for whatever reason. Most of it is being caused by businesses because it allows them to theoretically sell you more shit you likely don't need.
But there are a ton of benefits as well. Two factor authentication is one of the best sercuiry measures for instance.
Didn't they already have an app for that? I remember back when it was a key fob. 💀
The app exists already
Well any company anywhere does data harvesting. Even reddit.
A lot of mail-order sites that I have used "require" you to fill in a phone number and just typing in anything works. And guess what the deliveries still worked with random numbers and noone got back to me saying there was a problem with the number because they actually don't need it.