There are people who don't have a cell phone because they see it as a distraction engine that will gobble up their life. Digital addictive drugs. But it's almost impossible to maintain this stance in modern life. Have you seen the trend of restaurants that no longer print menus? Instead there is a QR code that opens up their website to get the menu. Every service now wanting SMS verification adds to their problems.
I personally only use throwaway rental numbers on the web, basically giving me the worst security possible for any kind of account that falls back to SMS for security.
There are also services that are specialized on providing the right number for a one time fee. This usually works well, but more often than not destroys future account security (they all will give numbers out again, not relevant what they claim)
I could literally write a book about my life without a 'real' phone number.
I wouldn’t count on this, but I’m trying to give a business money. Most are happy to satisfy reasonable requests.
So I went to the restaurant next door. If you can't even bother to scribble a menu on a chalkboard, you're not a real business.
Probably talk to them? I'm not sure where you're going with this because a paper menu isn't going to help with blindness.
This is a trend here in Brazil. And do they send you to a lightweight, mobile-optimized web page? No way in hell, you can be pretty damn sure they will send you to a 20MB PDF that was designed for printing.
It's mind boggling how insane this is.
Well yes, doesn't literally everything need a phone number to work these days? Can't open a bank account, can't get paid, can't pay bills, can't exist.