Doesn't have Google your phone number yet? Don't worry, you are the next one.

by latestnewsheadline Banned

Posted: 12 years ago 16 replies

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I have a google account, used only for google + and to register my site to some directories. I don't send any emails from it.

What I do? I use daily my account and post on google+, and now, google force me to give my phone number, otherwise I don't have access to my account.

Google invented this, and I'm sure they do it, only to have the bigest phone book in the world:

"We've detected unusual activity on your account. To immediately restore access to your account, choose how to verify your account."

Probably, some of you have received the same message from google.
Did you give or not, your phone number to Google?
If not, did you receive the google account access, at the end?

#google #number #phone #worry

AnniePot 12 years ago

Originally Posted by londonwarrior

If you want access then give them your phone number. I don't see what the problem is.

I do, if people don't have a separate business phone number. My phone number is unlisted and the last thing I want is Google selling it to businesses they think appropriate to the information they've accumulated on me.

I'm already bombarded with advertising everywhere I turn; I certainly don't intent to empower Google with the ability to make it even worse.
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FreeMeal 12 years ago

Google periodically asks me for my phone number, but there is usually an option to skip it (very small near the bottom of the page).

Personally, I think it's too nosy. It's none of their business what my phone number is. All big organisations do the same sort of thing, whether it's government agencies, political parties or giant corporations; they'll always keep pushing for more and more to get everything their own way. How long before it seems normal that they demand a stool sample and an account of all your previous sexual partners? No doubt there would still be some who'll say "if you've got nothing to hide, then what's the problem?"
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- onSubie 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by FreeMeal
  
  Google periodically asks me for my phone number, but there is usually an option to skip it (very small near the bottom of the page).
  
  Yes, I always skip it and never had a problem.
  
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- Matt Morgan 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by FreeMeal
  
  Google periodically asks me for my phone number, but there is usually an option to skip it (very small near the bottom of the page).
  
  Yes you are right, it is very very very small.
  
  If you can read this, you are a super duper warrior.
  
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  latestnewsheadline Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Matt Morgan
  
  Yes you are right, it is very very very small.
  
  If you can read this, you are a super duper warrior.
  
  I know the message you are talking about, but this message is different.
  Soon, you will see it..
  
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  latestnewsheadline Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Matt Morgan
  
  Yes you are right, it is very very very small.
  
  If you can read this, you are a super duper warrior.
  
  I can read it, but in the below google message (I copied the all web page, no other information or small text in it), the phone number is mandatory.
  If you don't give it, you can't access your gmail account.
  
  Verify your account
  
  We've detected unusual activity on your account. To immediately restore access to your account, choose how to verify your account.
  Verification Options
  Text Message
  Google will send a text message containing a verification code to your mobile phone.
  
  Voice Call
  Google will make an automated voice call to your phone with a verification code.
  
  Country
  
  Mobile phone company
  
  Phone Type
  Mobile Landline Other
  
  Phone number
  Email address
  
  If you're having trouble receiving a verification code, learn more about your support options.
  
  Important: Google will never share your number with other companies or use it for marketing purposes.
  
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marlamay 12 years ago

I have three account two of them are old and I can always skip. But with the new one no skip option so they asked several times and I give my number to them every time. Why are they asking again and again?
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- downunder57 12 years ago
  
  What, no skip options with new accounts.
  If that is true I wouldn't use google.
  
  I think they know enough about us already
  without getting our phone numbers, too.
  
  There's no way I would give them mine.
  
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Joseph Robinson Banned 12 years ago

I just gave them a Rejection Hotline phone number. Think I'll be in trouble when they find out?*

*Try that at your own risk. I didn't. Probably fraud or some weird crap like that.
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kindsvater 12 years ago

I wonder how many give Google the phone number for Yahoo, Microsoft, the White House, FTC, police department, zoo, throwaway numbers, etc.

Personally, I have not given Google my number.

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- cpadualcore 12 years ago
  
  If you're paranoid about giving your phone number, then you can buy phone verified gmail accounts and use it to create google plus profiles. Last time I checked the price, it was something like $5 for 100 accounts. So its dirt cheap. And as internet marketers, multiple accounts is a common thing. We should be getting used to it. :rolleyes:
  
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  Dan C. Rinnert 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by cpadualcore
  
  And as internet marketers, multiple accounts is a common thing.
  
  Why? Why? Why? Why?
  
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Samrath Gupta 12 years ago

Many times google asks me when i try logging into my EMAIL ACCOUNT(Not + Account)

and usually I skip it!

Look for a Little SKIP IT button..

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- latestnewsheadline Banned 12 years ago
  
  @Samrath Gupta
  It is the same account. You authenticate once for both services.
  
  @dmister and @Samrath Gupta
  As I told before there are NO skip button or link. Please read what I wrote in a previous message.
  
  If you use from time to time your email, google probably don't ask the phone number.
  But if you post daily on google+ and you are included in more than 1000 persons circle (more than 1k follow you), in this way, google can force you to give the phone number.
  
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dmister 12 years ago

I often get this when I sign into Gmail and there is always a tiny skip button in the bottom right hand corner, but it is annoying! I don`t want to give Google my phone number.

If you really don`t want you could try giving an old number on a very old phone or you could try just using a random number instead!

PS I am a super duper warrior as I read the small print!
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