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This is just a sad consequence of some merchants creating accounts in the thousands/hundreds of thousands and selling them to SEO/Marketing blackhats to use.
by coder1001 5y ago
This is just a sad consequence of some merchants creating accounts in the thousands/hundreds of thousands and selling them to SEO/Marketing blackhats to use.
- willhinsa 5y agoAnd they will figure out ways around this, while the average user will get screwed out of being able to make a new account.
- zozbot234 5y agoGoogle should simply have paid, in-person support for these issues. Cuts off the spam merchants, while still letting Joe Average create an account with their usual phone number once they've been verified as an actual person. That's got to have some value, even to Google themselves.
- tester756 5y ago>While still letting Joe Average create an account with their usual phone number once they've been verified as an actual person. so, how?
- pjerem 5y agoBy talking on the phone.
- coder1001 5y agocredit card matching the User's name/location?
- Rebelgecko 5y agoI don't think that would go over well. When Google asked people to share a national ID or credit card in the EU (age verification is legally required to be compliant with the new "think of the children" regulations in the EU's Audiovisual Media Services Directive), people online freaked out. (disclaimer, work for Google but not on this)
- Zak 5y agoI encountered this on Youtube even though my account registration and VPN endpoint say I'm in the US. I ended up fixing it with a browser extension.