[i_see_things]

If it were only email I could use software that blocks spam email. But there's no way I know of that can block spam phone calls. And I, at least, get spam phone calls.

Signing up on donotcall.gov doesn't help. There's always some checkbox in some terms of service somewhere that grant people the right to contact me that I don't know about.

But the biggest reason I don't want to give my phone number is I want to not feel the way being required to give my phone number makes me feel. I feel like a tracked inmate.

Right back at you: why do you need a phone number from a user? Why do you need anything from a user? What problem are you trying to solve that cannot be solved in any other way except by asking for people's phone number?