A much less critical or important thing but underlines the bad attitudes: I just tried to renew my cancelled Netflix membership yesterday. I am not allowed to do that without providing a phone number (I used Netflix for ca. 8 years without it). I do not provide that because I do not want to. I do not tie every aspect of my life to my phone number. In fact I do not want to tie any aspect of it to my phone exclusively. Phone number based authentication is not safe and reliable anyway (can loose, stolen, damaged, then I'll have a cascading effect of problems instantly).
I talked long to the helpdesk lady and the conclusion is that I am not allowed to renew my Netflix account without providing a phone number. End of story.
I permanently remain a non-Netflix user this way. Their loss actually.
(A secondary trouble with them is that they are trying to misinform me, giving false reasons! The support lady reasoned that they need the phone number for validating bank transaction. Since they - Netflix - want to use this to send a code in text that I am required to type into their - Netflix - system it has nothing to do with my bank and with authenticating the transaction! (my bank would never use phone for authienticating a transaction btw, I am not even sure if I updated my phone number with them, they reach me other electronic ways). She was just bullsh%ting! Also the renewal pages stated differently, saying that authenticating my account is where the phone number is required. Not to mention that a friend of mine registered recently and for him the reason to register a phone number was to retrieve password recovery messages. Three sources, three different reasons, one of them is complete bullsh%t. Very repelling kind of practice, I am actually glad staying away.)
(A third smaller aspect was that the helpdesk lady tried to interview me about my phone usage strategy and my reasons instead of answering my question about alternatives. It is not her business how I use phone and trying to pressure me into some rigid lifestyle strategy they determine. There are many alternative ways to carry out the same task, they should provide more and better choices.)