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Dangerous? For the users maybe. What are they going to do? For Google? They get to clean up (only keep "real" users) and reduce datacenter costs.

• slac 6y ago
  And maybe slow down account creation used for online harassment?
  • weird-eye-issue 6y ago
    A phone number is already needed to create a Google account, completely independently of 2FA and a backup phone number
    • Hnrobert42 6y ago
      Last week I created a gmail account. No phone number was required. I fully expected it to require one, but it didn’t.
      • weird-eye-issue 6y ago
        It looks like if you create it through the Gmail app that is a workaround to not needing a phone number