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A related Google story:- In Canada, I used to have a rooted nexus device which used to be my daily driver until I choose to switch over to Apple around 2 (maybe

by iamshs 10y ago

A related Google story:- In Canada, I used to have a rooted nexus device which used to be my daily driver until I choose to switch over to Apple around 2 (maybe 3) or so years back. Before moving to Australia, I totally wiped it all up, and yesterday fired it up and setup a fake email account on Gmail to access Play store. It does not have a SIM card, but the fake email account asked for my Phone Number verification, and had my Canadian number already pre-filled. I was totally creeped out. I am out of explanation, except maybe connecting to my Canadian Wi-Fi address after wiping it all up (But wifi was used by 5 other people too). I have never used it to call anyone up after wiping it, and haven't had SIM card in it since. It runs Cyanogen too. You cannot deceive Google, it is futile. I will just stop at running ublock origin and ghostery in my browser, until they deceive me too. Nowadays, you cannot even create an email account on gmail or outlook without giving away your phone number. The scale is not titled towards us.

throway4565 10y ago
easy way to know if they know about your other accounts is if they ask you if it was you who logged into your account when you log in with another ip/device. Say it wasn't you.
PhantomGremlin 10y ago
Nowadays, you cannot even create an email account on gmail or outlook without giving away your phone number. Do you plan on staying in one location, using the same IP address, for the rest of your life? If not, then gmail will occasionally force you to use your phone number to "verify" that it's you. Of course, in fact what they really want to confirm is the association between your email and your phone. This just happened to me a few days ago. I flew out of town. I logged in from a different city, Google forced me to verify by sending an SMS to my phone.
- chupasaurus 10y ago
  Google doesn't block access if you haven't activated 2FA, but that page asking of link to my phone number is annoying me since it's first appearance. Dear devs, sales managers etc.: if your user made a decision respect it and not try to ask him directly if he had changed his mind every single time he uses your product, you have other tools to do that rather than yet another page which I always click "Nope" on it.
fowl2 10y ago
When you purchase a nexus device, it's IMEI, effectively a serial number, can be linked to a Google Account so that the first boot experience can prefill stuff - I think this is optional but it's been a while.
gnicholas 10y ago
I recently downloaded the UberEats app on my iPhone. When I opened it for the first time, it pre-filled the email address I use for Uber and asked if I wanted to proceed with that. I don't know where they got this info from, but it sure creeped me out. I would hope Apple would make an app ask permission before grabbing my email address from my contact card, and I have no idea how it could get this information from the Uber app.
- oarsinsync 10y ago
  I believe apps published by the same developer have the ability to share information transparently. Google is doing this with their apps - sign into the gmail app on your iphone, and chrome, maps and youtube will ask you repeatedly to sign in using the same creds. ..and looks like it's not limited to same dev. Niantic published apps are also able to pull out my Google creds. Might be because I have a google account defined in iOS, might be because they're a former-Goog company and Goog have given them backdoor details. Any devs on iOS able to shed any real light on my vague speculation?
  - runeb 10y ago
    Since iOS 8 apps can share data on device through so called App Groups if they are published with the same bundle identifier prefix. For that to happen I believe they have to be published by the same developer account. Here is a link about this in the context of sharing data between apps and app extensions: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/ExtensionScenarios.html https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Ge...

by iamshs 10y ago

throway4565 10y ago

easy way to know if they know about your other accounts is if they ask you if it was you who logged into your account when you log in with another ip/device. Say it wasn't you.

PhantomGremlin 10y ago

Nowadays, you cannot even create an email account on gmail or outlook without giving away your phone number. Do you plan on staying in one location, using the same IP address, for the rest of your life? If not, then gmail will occasionally force you to use your phone number to "verify" that it's you. Of course, in fact what they really want to confirm is the association between your email and your phone. This just happened to me a few days ago. I flew out of town. I logged in from a different city, Google forced me to verify by sending an SMS to my phone.

chupasaurus 10y ago
Google doesn't block access if you haven't activated 2FA, but that page asking of link to my phone number is annoying me since it's first appearance. Dear devs, sales managers etc.: if your user made a decision respect it and not try to ask him directly if he had changed his mind every single time he uses your product, you have other tools to do that rather than yet another page which I always click "Nope" on it.

fowl2 10y ago

When you purchase a nexus device, it's IMEI, effectively a serial number, can be linked to a Google Account so that the first boot experience can prefill stuff - I think this is optional but it's been a while.

gnicholas 10y ago

I recently downloaded the UberEats app on my iPhone. When I opened it for the first time, it pre-filled the email address I use for Uber and asked if I wanted to proceed with that. I don't know where they got this info from, but it sure creeped me out. I would hope Apple would make an app ask permission before grabbing my email address from my contact card, and I have no idea how it could get this information from the Uber app.

oarsinsync 10y ago
I believe apps published by the same developer have the ability to share information transparently. Google is doing this with their apps - sign into the gmail app on your iphone, and chrome, maps and youtube will ask you repeatedly to sign in using the same creds. ..and looks like it's not limited to same dev. Niantic published apps are also able to pull out my Google creds. Might be because I have a google account defined in iOS, might be because they're a former-Goog company and Goog have given them backdoor details. Any devs on iOS able to shed any real light on my vague speculation?
- runeb 10y ago
  Since iOS 8 apps can share data on device through so called App Groups if they are published with the same bundle identifier prefix. For that to happen I believe they have to be published by the same developer account. Here is a link about this in the context of sharing data between apps and app extensions: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/ExtensionScenarios.html https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Ge...