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When is the last time you tried? I have created a gmail account couple of weeks back without providing phone number and recovery email.
by fullmetaleng 10y ago
When is the last time you tried?
I have created a gmail account couple of weeks back without providing phone number and recovery email.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoI did it. Then they banned it. Having my phone number or any other hard identifier is none of Googles business.
- tacomonstrous 10y agoI did it recently, and burned myself, because I forgot my password and had no way of recovering the account. As far as I know, my account isn't banned, though.
- Chris2048 10y agoI moved country, and had to wait to visit the country I registered in to get the account back.
- dimino 10y agoThey didn't ban your account for not having a phone number.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoWhat else? I was creating this for Youtube videos for my son. When we were about to upload a video, it was already banned.
- dimino 10y agoI dunno, but you weren't banned for not having a phone number attached to your account, because I and many others have accounts without phone numbers and are not banned.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoIt may depend on the time frame and geolocation. I tried to do this about 6 months ago. I have also an old account that does not have a phone number and it is functional. What I was describing was a creation of a new account.
- dimino 10y agoI'm not Google customer support, but I'll repeat for a third time; you were not suspended because you didn't provide a phone number.
- lucb1e 10y agoI think you've made your opinion clear. Why continue to try pushing it as fact? There are a thousand factors at play in spam/fraud/whatever detection, how can you possibly say with a straight face that you're certain the phone number is not a leading reason?
- eveningcoffee 10y agoIt may be that this persons knows something more that we do not (does not seem to be the case) or has very different experience. I do not mind this. It is indeed possible that the cause of the ban originated from some other source as from entered personal details and sequence of actions. It actually motivates me to create another experiment. While this statement will be really buried, it reminds me that we still should be thankful that we can somewhat conceal our identity as a private enterprise can be much more unforgiving that the state.
- weaksauce 10y agoFrom what I can tell from a few days ago, you can't create a new account without a phone number.
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- givinguflac 10y agoI have a google account without a phone number, but it's always been that way so they probably aren't going to ban me... I hope at least until I finish migrating
- clarry 10y agoThey could lock you out of your account and require your number before letting you log in again. Any day. Happened to me.
- baybal2 10y agoThey do that if: 1. You don't log in from a first world IP (the terminology from their user operations team), but previous logins were from them. 2. You registered from an IP in a country where they don't have access to sending SMS, but they go to a country where they have. 3. Bot detection algo flagged you, and bot detection algo are one of their crown jewels that they don't tell to support people.
- jcsvyu789jh 10y agoDo you disagree with their right to specify the terms of use as to include a phone number, or do you just not like the rule?
- eveningcoffee 10y agoI think that giving such agencies the power to identify unique individuals is not beneficial for the humankind.
- codedokode 10y agoIt probably depends on your IP address, country and maybe something else. Some time ago I was unable to register on youtube without providing a phone number, and earlier I have registered a Google Account from Android emulator that was instantly blocked. Maybe it is because of spam, or maybe because lot of people are using the same IP address.