I by chance registered several new Google accounts lately. It was a few months ago so things might have changed. You don't need a credit card to register a Goo

I by chance registered several new Google accounts lately. It was a few months ago so things might have changed. You don't need a credit card to register a Google account. As for the phone number, IIRC you do need to provide one during the registration but that number isn't automatically associated with your account, it's there more to prevent spamming I think. Also you can re-use the same number (to certain degree, at least; I have 4 accounts registered with the same number). Please note that I'm not saying this is ideal, but compared to some other "major" services, Google is actually on the easier side for registering an account.