For me, I’m just not going to verify my number. I don’t care enough to at this point.
Since the majority of Roblox users are under 13, what happens to them? They can’t verify, so as somebody who has spent over 8 years working in groups and on groups. This is the vast majority of revenue I’ve made from the platform gone. Since while the more quality players are 13+, the hordes of visitors are almost always 13-.
Honestly I hardly even have access to my phone number aswell. Living in a rural area I have to drive to a town to get service. So I either have to tell someone I need their phone number or bring a laptop to town just so I can verify my phone number. Honestly with AT&T major data breach, and Sim swapping also kind of a problem. I think Gmail, Hotmail, and even custom domain mails are way better since I have better access.
Dang, I ain’t usually that secure with most of my things. But only my email passwords (I have different emails for different accounts) are changed every week. I do roblox Once per month despite having 2FA. I honestly encourage a lot of other people to do the same.
Don’t you have WiFi calling? I know not all devices support SMS over WiFi calling but that’s not really an answer not to implement phone number verification.
I should also add on that this isn’t as big of a problem as it once was. I’m not sure if it’s a huge issue here in the UK, but all carriers in the US now have options to prevent this.
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Honestly I didn’t know this existed. I tried find it and still didn’t have it.
It’s for stricter moderation
Your account gets deleted
You make a new account
You use the same phone number
Instant misusing roblox system’s ban
No more ban evasion
On one hand I’m all for this but on the other hand I know a lot of kids who get banned for putting viruses inside their game or through crosswoods
And they just can’t play roblox anymore
My best friend got permanently banned because he saw a “Ultimate trolling GUI” in one of flamingo’s videos, so he searched it on the toolbox and put it in his game
20 minutes later and account termination
Turns out that the person who made it had a special GUI inside of the GUI that had some not so family-friendly scripts inside it.
He couldn’t appeal it either.
A phone number is not even being used for security in this context, it’s being used for validation.
The article you link talks about obvious stuff like getting scam calls, or cross-linking your phone number with other data. Neither of these things are unique to phone numbers, email addresses receive the exact same kind of treatment.
If you are concerned, just use a Google voice number or something, it doesn’t cost money.
Relevant information
https://withpersona.com/legal/privacy-policy
https://withpersona.com/dsar
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Yeah this is getting ridiculous.
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You’re assuming every single device is a phone with a SIM card (meaning in most cases no phone number). Much of Roblox mobile users are young and typically don’t have one of those. Many younger people I know personally use a tablet and have no sort of phone number.
Roblox is pushing for using phone numbers in a way which they aren’t supposed to be used. They were never intended for validation or authentication. You also can’t use VOIP for phone numbers on Roblox as far as I’m aware.
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Theres no way im giving 2 different companies my IRL phone number, one platform being infamous for their security breaches, ease of hacking for malicious users, and its generally ignorant support team. This validation method sucks, there has to be a different way of validation like being authenticator or email verified. Not to mention im in Turkey so i dont think roblox will accept my phone number.
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Roblox has begun collecting our gameplay data and selling it to advertisers, right? Tons of companies do this and link it to their numbers too, so they can get robo/telemarketer. This seems a tad suspicious.
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Actually, it does mention about account safety multiple times. I can tell that it was skimmed through.
Security is security and having a phone number on Roblox has proven to be less secure and is a valid reason why you would not want phone numbers to be used as a validation method. Heck, emails are more secure
Also, about Google Voice Number…
This is common to see when it comes to things like this. Me and my friends are Canadian and these are not easily accessible to us and let alone other countries that have further restrictions 
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This was done in response to the Hindenburg report and feels like an overcorrection, like several of the other changes they’ve done recently.
The main issue for me is SIM Swapping, this is still an issue on Roblox because they will not for the life of them remove SMS password reset, which is the attack vector SIM swapping manipulates.
Roblox, if you’re going to try and force me to have a phone number, get rid of this already.
Phone numbers were initially popularised sometime around 1920 (thats over a century ago), they are hilariously insecure and were never designed as a form of 2FA, they didnt even know what that was when coming up with it.
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Wait, let me guess, you can only toggle that if you are in Europe?
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There is a database floating around of the first few hundred accounts email addresses (lots of which are private/internal @roblox.com kind of addresses) and I do recall there was a large spambot wave once which used accounts that were claimed to be grabbed directly off Roblox (ie not phished, guessed, or credential stuffed) - This also isn’t factoring in that time that support person got bribed, which at least to my memory allowed for resetting passwords of any accounts.
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still tho, it should be optional cuz some people like me dont have a phone number yet
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