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I have a question, what do companies do with your phone number ? can they trace who you are and what you do ?

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[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They track everything about the owner of the phone number and all the details of your calls to maximize revenue through data science bullshit

Google's PUBLIC ad call tracking support page

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6197479?hl=en

"By routing calls to your business through a dynamic, trackable phone number, you can get new reporting insights like call duration, call start and end time, caller area code and whether the call was connected"

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't everyone get that on their phone already?

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The business you called gets this info about you provided by Google

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

But can't they just look in their call logs already? My phone tells me all the info you quoted Google as giving.