Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number!

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I understand the story is about google adding a guy’s number to a profile on his business, which seems odd. But I wonder if anybody here is old enough to remember phone books? I haven’t seen one in a while, but the phone company used to automatically deliver one to everybody who had a phone. A physical book with the name, address and phone number of everybody in the local area, except people who paid extra not to be included. You could dial a number for information, give somebody’s name, and a helpful operator would tell you their phone number so you could call them. This was totally normal and it didn’t bother anybody - how do people feel about that whole concept now?

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