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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
by 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 agoGoogle 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.