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Anytime google has asked for my phone number there has always been a Skip link.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yes skip worked but like i said as soon as i went to post anything or upload then up popped the message again.
My old YT account is now dead because they thought i would give them what they wanted if they hijacked my account, they were wrong.
You can set up an SMS on-line service to fool them but i just told the misses to pick up a 99p G3 sim card so it will be used once and then thrown in the bin.
Twatter also tried the trick of making me give them a valid email address after i forgot the one used to create the account so they can full my real account with spam. I refused and lots of other people too because some months later they dropped it and let me back in without having to replay to an email that of course, was sent for my protection.
Twiiter is full of adverts and spam bots, takes one to know one if anyone needs a twitter bot
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Seems like they're getting more persistent all the time. I don't give out my phone number to just anyone...what kind of guy do you think I am? 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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I thought we were just haggling over the price!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I had the same thing a few weeks back, with IMDB, but they gave me the choice of phone or credit-card number.
There is no good reason to give either to a web-site in any on-the-verge-of-totalitarianism country, so I deleted my account.
It's a bit more of a wrench deleting an e-mail account, but it's the advisable course of action.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"on-the-verge-of-totalitarianism country"
Yes thats a man that gets it.
Google started with free canndy, level playing field and now look at it !
Don't put google spyware all over the site and your site, no matter how good ends up on the back pages and they even try to tell us how we should write HTML and not to put javascript redirect on A-Tags and yet Google is the worlds worse at that one.
Personlized search results is just another way of saying censorship and thats comeing form the bigest monoply known to man.
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there's a very good reason: it helps keep people from hacking into your account(s).
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Keeping things in boxes under your pillow helps keep people from stealing them.
Storing such information on the server of a foreign company just makes it available to the government of that country, and puts it all in one place to be hacked in one go -- although that would never happen, would it?
I mean, who would spend a few months figuring out how to hack a server that's full of wonders, rather than spend a few days each on individual Internet users, managing maybe six a month?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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this might come as a shock to you, but your phone provider knows your phone number, so does everyone you call. it is not sensitive confidential identification, it's a phone number.
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My phone provider is not controlled by a foreign government.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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At least they let you delete the account.
Ashley Madison lets you disable your account...for free.
But if you want to actually delete it? $19, please.
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If there is a non-zero percentage (however small) of people who don't have phones, such a policy would exclude them entirely.
And, as someone mentions above, there's a 'Skip this Step' button.
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Skip works untill you go to leave a comment or upload something on Youtube and then you are back to the start as they block you and ask to send you a SMS again.
Google sells data to anyone that will pay and letting them have you address, phone number makes the data worth a lot more and i already get machines ringing me up
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Maybe it is a country thing. From India, can upload a video without giving any phone number.
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I use CyberGhost and can connect from India but Google knows all the addresses used by Cyber-Ghost and Tor exit nodes so i am stuffed.
Code i should run more often connects to Google over SSL (Often they force browsers to use HTTPS) and sends them a very slow stream of random searches so i get my own back because the data becomes worthless
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Facebook uses my phone number.
Anytime I try to log into Facebook from an unknown computer I'm texted a special code.
I appreciate the additional security.
BTW, if Google wanted to they could send a group of guys to your house. They could black bag you and string your arse up in the town square. They could claim you were a 'terrorist' and nobody would give a crap. In short, you're trying to protect the wrong thing - the robbers left 15 minutes ago with anything of value.
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Lots of people who have flead facebook don't share your views but if they have your number then rest assured it has been traded with Google.
I know this sounds silly unless you think about it but too me data has become a type of bit-coin to be traded, replicated and swapped as if it has real value. (Banks also trade and replicate money, it's called fractional reverse banking if you care to check)
its a bit like the 400 trillon $UDS worth of credit default swaps that are washing around the banking system where the name of the game is to accumlate more even if like funney money in the banking system this wealth can never be cased in for real goods without crashing the system.
Just think you are helping Facebook who has never turned a cent in profit during its history to push up its share value to something above $10bn so how does that work
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A phone book must really freak you out then...
I can change my phone number at any time.
My phone number isn't me - it doesn't uniquely identify me.
Unlike a social security number or thumbprint it may have belonged to someone else in the past or it may belong to someone else in the future.
It is amazing to me that the average American citizen freaks out over Google having a phone number and the same borderline paranoid tool votes for Obama who has made our medical records the purview of the Internal Revenue Service. The government listening in on thousands of calls, breaking privacy laws left and right - and people get upset over a phone number that is available in a directory.
I'm upset Google has my phone number because, I dunno, they might call me; however, I don't care that the government is recording my phone calls. <---- boggle
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MehGerbil wrote: the average American citizen freaks out over Google having a phone number
Look again... this dude isn't average or American.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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The last half of the message is a general rant not directed at him.
BTW, good on him for finding a country where the government doesn't record phone calls.
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MehGerbil wrote: A phone book must really freak you out then...
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Are you sure it's not part of the 2 step verification system? Many online accounts are going that way...
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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I understand you might find this hard to beleive because it goes against everything your are being told but i scanned 700,000 google Urls (It was all i could find in English) and three months later I tested to see who was still up and running and if the site went 404 then i ran a DNS-Looup to see if the domain name had been removed.
Take it from me small sites are droping like flies because people have learned that you cannot make a profit from running a little site with adverts at the top that cover something like "How to knit" and google is playing a big part in this happening because not only do they get no income but these sites get few visitors and are hidden on page 99 of googles personlized search results even if they are good unless they pay google some cash.
Two stage registration won't help matters.
Sorry i don't know if big sites are getting bigger but i do know that the end result is less work for us.
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Dr Gadgit wrote: Two stage registration won't help matters.
...ummmm.... Two Step Verification doesn't have anything to do with Google search or advertising.
You seem to have a bias and an agenda as it relates to Google. Good luck with that...
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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