PSA: Don’t give out your phone number for Facebook 2FA, use an app instead
It’s no secret that Facebook doesn’t respect your privacy in the least: we learned last October that the company used the phone number you provided for two-factor authentication to enable advertisers to target you. Last week, Emojipedia’s Jeremy Burge highlighted in a tweet that if the social network has your number, it allows everyone on …
4 Mar 2019 ... You can actually avoid giving your number to Facebook without ditching the ... To do this, log into Facebook and visit this link, or head to your settings, ... way, it's time to set up two-factor authentication without a phone number.