I fuckin’ signed in to YouTube with my existing account damn it
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Trust me, Google already knows your home address.
also, I know yours.
Just enter
127.0.0.1Aaaand now 1,337 other users can reset your password and steal your account.
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You can skip that step. Not that it’s okay, tho.
For now.
Next year:
Sorry, your login looks suspicious. For your security, you’ve been permanently locked out of your account.
Since you never willingly gave us your address, you cannot submit a request to regain access to your account. Thank you for all the data. You cannot contact us. Have a nice day, dumbfuk
Literally every of these Google “add information xy” boxes has been skippable for years now
Phone number?
not for now, but forever. they’d be in huge trouble with EU regulations should they ever dare to change it
For now.
There are some people who will put this data, the ones who usually agree to all cookies. So even if you let users skip, with some dark patterns you can manage to influence a lot of people. Example: I set up local windows accounts for a couple of family members, yet somehow a week later or so they had online Microsoft accounts connected.
What kind of bullshit is this?
God, I dislike Google so much. Funny to remember that once their motto used to be, “Do no evil.” Ha, good times.
This was fun when my business address was some office I’d never been to.
There’s a shit ton of new regulations and they’re probably trying to figure out what filters and shit to apply to which viewers
I already gave up on Google when they started forcing you to send them your ID to watch age restricted videos.
More like asking you to confirm what they already know.
Yeah, ridiculous isn’t it.
Recently validated data has more value tho
Skip
We may not always have that option…
They don’t even pretend it’s for security reasons and just admit it’s for ads 🤣
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No, this is user error. It clearly strongly recommended you to print out your backup code when the MFA was enabled. If you forgot or ignored it and then wiped an important phone, that’s on you.
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I like how you conveniently cropped out the “try another way” button:
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Just click skip? They just use it for traffic notifications on maps and stuff.
But at some point, there will be no skip button. You know it, I know it, we all know it. This is like the creepy uncle who starts out by giving you candy and playing football in the yard. Then he wants you to sit on his lap before candy or football, but you can jump off whenever, until the day, he won’t let you. That is what these companies have been doing. I still remember the arm twisting they did when they took over youtube and we all liked youtube so much, we ended up giving in to it.
The end game for them is to own all your personal information and have total control over your online activity. Them giving you a skip button is a fake comfort. They probably already know where you live too.
For my part, I have just accepted that my basic bitch info is out there. Whatever I haven’t shared myself, have been shared either by a phone book service in my country or by databrokers who have sold my info to random companies and scammers.
Anonymity online is an illusion unless you are a very tech savvy which most of us are not.
