Bumpers - Record and listen to conversations, rants, and audio shows

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@chrisgomez Should work anywhere

@redboy A shame that you let something so trivial prevent you from enjoying Bumpers for the past year. Your flippant dismissal of this product suggests you (irrationally) feared Team Bumpers might misuse/sell your phone number. They did nothing of the sort with mine. Maybe try them again?

@al_boulley there is nothing “flippant” about my response. There is absolutely, positively no reason for an app like this to require my phone number for its use. There are plenty of other options out there and I have no desire to retry this until they change their policy. Thanks for your concern though.

@redboy Actually, there IS a reason for requiring a phone number to use a social media app/platform. It's called, "one person one account". No—requiring a phone number does *not* perfectly limit people to one account. I have a Google Voice number in addition to my cellular provider-issued number; someone can own multiple phones and have a number for each. Yet for all intents and purposes, requiring a phone number will *vastly* reduce the number of people with multiple accounts. Personally, I think that's a good thing. It's no longer a big deal to give your phone number or email to 99.99% of the companies. Being hypervigilant about either of those is like cutting off your nose to spite your face. And yes, you were flippant—your initial response was "not showing a serious or respectful attitude". Bumpers did nothing wrong, foolish, regrettable, or unfortunate by requiring a phone number.

@al_boulley Phone numbers are just as easy to fake as emails. If you don't realize this you're naive. To add it as a requirement to an app only does one thing - to scare off the privacy conscience. I wasn't flippant then, but I shall be now. Bugger off already.

@redboy Most people will never try to have more than one phone number, whereas it's common for people to have multiple email addresses. Most people don't know about Google Voice, or other reputable VOIP vendors, or the kinds of services you're probably talking about. Bottom line is that email addresses are easier to get than phone numbers. Bumpers using a phone number as an authentication method is smart, and quite safe. In fact, it prevents people from easily hacking into your account—they have to do much more than simply get access to your email account. Whenever you sign in to Bumpers from a new device, their system sends a 4-digit code to the registered phone number. Anyway, if you want to be super-private with your phone number, go ahead.