While not illegal, basically nothing I would do on Telegram is something I would want associated with my IRL phone number, lol. Of course, Telegram is very much set up to prevent the creation of an account without a phone number, even though they have a desktop client.
The closest I’ve got is those websites that let you receive texts to a phone number, but if they work at all, the free ones have already been used to make telegram accounts. It’s frustrating because basically every other website/social media account that exists, I’ve been able to sign up with a free anonymous burner email or something if I really wanted to. I don’t like to basically give out my doxx if it’s not for official business/family stuff.
Those of you who use Telegram, are you just all using your real phone number? Are you spending money on burner phones or premium SMS websites?
I mean that’s fair. Though if you use your phone they will probably store its hardware information as well. Then you will probably not get around having to use a burner number.
Yeah, letting your device talk directly to them would make the whole thing moot, of course.