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I got banned from Aliexpress for refusing to provide a phone number to a web page fully in chinese, and they didn't specify why I needed to despite them claiming a phone number isn't necessary to order
It's a shame that nowadays everything "needs" a phone number. I just put in a proper prefix code and then all zeroes as a number if some company forces me to. That works for some of the websites. Some stores even print that on a shipping label. So it might supposedly be there for a reason. But I've never heard this helps if a parcel gets lost or something. They won't call anyways and the real reason is they can store it in some database and depending on the exact business do all kinds of other stuff with it.
I usually look up the number for something like an ftc or fbi tipline if a website absolutely forces putting in personal info.
Where I live they always call because we don't have mail boxes, so they have to give the parcel personally and they call to see if you are home. If you aren't they don't ship it to you that day.
Ain't nothing but a phone number to me, and I can find all unseemly manner of use for it.