The solution is simple then. Allow businesses to maintain a phone number for people who watch ads on TV. Not like businesses getting spam calls is that big an issue. Though I’m certain they’d be very enthusiastic to have the unique contact QR feature available for tracking in web ads.

Phone numbers need to be memorable. A disposable unique contact does not. You can print a QR code, easily save it to a device, transmit it via nearly anything with a connectible screen. Of course you would want to launch it with alongside phone numbers, not in place of it, but this is what should be the next ‘innovation’ in cellular communication.
That said, it does pose the problem of contacting someone with a phone that isn’t your own, perhaps from jail. I’m sure they would never suggest putting an emergency contact chip in your hand for your own health and safety. No government would ever suggest something so silly. /s

Agreed.

Your device and account credentials are unique enough to identify you on the carrier-level, SIM/eSIM as well. Ultimately, every time you share your contact info, it should be a unique code (QR would be convenient enough) generated by your cell provider. If it’s ever leaked, you just notify your carrier to burn it, and give the contact a new unique code. No two people should be given the same contact, and all of the contacts are simply correlated to your device by the carrier. Additionally, when sharing contacts via QR, they could be modified on the device-level to include e2e encryption keys, thus further securing the transmitted information, not at the trust-me-bro carrier level, but at the user-verifiable device level. If the carrier gets hacked, reset the identifiers, associate the new one in your text app to keep conversations going, and move on like nothing happened. You’ll still be better off than if your phone number was leaked. It’s not perfect, but it’d be a hell of a lot more secure than what we have now.

In other words: What if a billion dollar company made Signal, but with cell towers, and not as good?

Slightly better than Vegas. Unfortunately, plenty of people are okay with Vegas odds.

This is a very niche meme. I love it.

Literally nothing. It will be applied more nefariously after it’s been proven capable.

Good. Anyone with ties to Peter Thiel should be investigated thoroughly.

Well, if Lord Robert McCauley says it, it must be true. I am truly humbled by your superior intellect and ability to determine a currency from a Ponzi scheme by citing essays that have nothing to do with Monero. Goodbye.

Okay buddy. Whatever you say.

Calling Monero a pyramid scheme is absurd.

ahem Call Me Maybe?

Involving the MasterCard Mafia in your puritanical crusade is next to criminal. The only solution is to [CONTENT REMOVED FOR VIOLATING RESTRICTIONS AGAINST ADVOCATING VIOLENCE].

I am not a lawyer. If being un-involved is your priority, it’s in your best interest to block the numbers and ignore the problem. You can’t be subpoenaed to testify about the contents of a call that didn’t take place.

What have you been smoking, and where can I get some?

Good. I’ve been disabling this shit in about:config for one decade too many.

Then you should phrase your question better, because Atmos is audio. Vision is HDR.

Only 30%? The only surprise here is that the number isn’t higher.

What a relief. I was really concerned that they may have given somebody else a copy of the books they found useful enough to download themselves. /s

Fucking bottom-feeders.

Always have been.