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I must have missed one of those at some point, because on multiple occasions now, while filling out shipping/billing field on websites I've never bought from before, their e-commerce platform recognized my partial info and sent me a "confirmation" text well before I entered a single digit of my phone number in the phone number field.
I'm sure that e-commerce platform touts that shit as being streamlined and convenient, but I thought it was fucking creepy, and it lost each of those companies my business.
This exact same thing happened to me and this is what completely put me off from that kind of service. Especially since I had never willingly agreed to let them record this information and use it this way. I thought I had been hacked at first. It is beyond creepy. The fact that they keep trying to sneak it past you every time makes it even worse.
Also, Shopify had a data breach about their customer's data already. I just don't want them to hold that information on their servers.