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What's the point? Something they don't understand is that phone verification only fucked up people, and that spams and big entities have millions of proxies and phone numbers to use and flood the network
I assume the point is that by requiring a phone number it's a drop-in replacement for WhatsApp. There's no need to register an account, just install a different app and you're good to go.
It's not the biggest barrier, but for some people it is one.
Why do I need to register an account?
If mullvad can let me click one to generate an "account" that receives payment, signal can figure out how to do the same with a bit of text.