New google policy... what do you think.

Steven Carl Kelly

14 years ago

I have no problem with telephone verification.

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Banned 14 years ago

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Pollon 14 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

What's the big deal, just borrow a cell phone.

PayPal does the same thing, to unlock an account.

that's what I am going to do tomorrow : ) didn't know about paypal.
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PCRoger 14 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

What's the big deal, just borrow a cell phone.

PayPal does the same thing, to unlock an account.

The problem is they limit the amount of times you can use a phone number - twice I think.

LOTS of marketers want more than 2 gmail accounts (use gmx.com instead for email if you want).

There is an app for iphones/ ipods that gives you a phone number you can use to verify with gmail.

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jbhyip

14 years ago

Yes, I think some people will go elsewhere. But, google is so popular that no one may even notice.

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Steven Carl Kelly

14 years ago

If you're in the US, just buy a disposable pre-paid cell phone at Wal-Mart. They have a TracFone you can buy for $9.88 and it comes with 20 minutes of airtime. Plenty of time to set up a few phone verified accounts.

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Sylonious

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Carl Kelly

If you're in the US, just buy a disposable pre-paid cell phone at Wal-Mart. They have a TracFone you can buy for $9.88 and it comes with 20 minutes of airtime. Plenty of time to set up a few phone verified accounts.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Just buy a new simcard and set it up each time you want to setup a google account.

Still, If all the major social 2.0 sites decide to implement this then the autospam on these sites will be reduced significantly (no more boosting your backlinks etc.)

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Barbara Eyre 14 years ago

I've had my Google account for about 5 years now, but tried to get a gmail account a few months back. STILL have yet to receive the verification phone call. I've tried redoing the sign up a few times, but it keeps asking for phone verification, but I never receive a call. Nothing unusual about my phone system at all. *shrugs*
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thebarksmeow

14 years ago

I get unlimited email addresses with my domains. Then I can forward them to a gmail account.

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Lisa Gergets

14 years ago

I think that in today's day and age, anyone who does not have some kind of contact phone number is suspect.

Not saying you ARE, of course. I loathe talking on the phone too, so I hear ya on that. Just saying that the public perception is probably different than you and I think...

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Pollon

14 years ago

Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose

I have no problem with this at all, but I am having a hard time getting past the part about you not having a phone. What if there is an emergency? Does 911 accept instant messages?

This is what they asked me when I cancelled my cell phone number years ago. Luckily I never needed to do an emergency call. Let's hope it never happens to me and if it does that there is a phone or a person with a phone around.

Originally Posted by Quentin

I guess Pollon you are not wanting to run a business so why worry about a blogger or gmail account. There are plenty of alternatives for personal use.

Is blogger and gmail just for business? I thought they were free : ) In the office where I work there is a phone, but you need to talk to an operator and ask her to find me. I don't receive a lot of calls.

Originally Posted by Lisa Gergets

I think that in today's day and age, anyone who does not have some kind of contact phone number is suspect.

Not saying you ARE, of course. I loathe talking on the phone too, so I hear ya on that. Just saying that the public perception is probably different than you and I think...

it's nice not to be alone

I know that I some point I'll probably be forced to get a phone just like they "forced" me to get one 10 years ago. But untill then I'll stay phone free as long as I can. I even save some money this way

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tgro03 14 years ago

I doubt they'll lose too many customers. Most people have some sort of phone and won't find this to be a big deal, I didn't. Some people probably like the idea of more security online anyway.
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jamespitt

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Lisa Gergets

I think that in today's day and age, anyone who does not have some kind of contact phone number is suspect.

Not saying you ARE, of course. I loathe talking on the phone too, so I hear ya on that. Just saying that the public perception is probably different than you and I think...

I agree with what you just said .

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mr2020

14 years ago

Erase your cookies, including your adobe cookies.

THEN open up a new gmail account.

I almost never get asked to phone verify.

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Mukul Verma

14 years ago

This is a good thing for us.

Now makes it harder to outsource stuff, especially when sites like Craigslist do this.

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KenThompson

14 years ago

Aweber also does phone verification. Seems a little odd, maybe,
that it took them so long to do this considering how long gmail
has been around.

Ken

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steveniam

14 years ago

Just curious - do they do phone activation for international users?

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Alfred Shelver 14 years ago

I am in South Africa and even though I linked a blogger account to an existing Gmail account I still had to phone verify .... It was lightning fast to my phone here in South Africa.

So yes I think it is everywhere

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Just curious - do they do phone activation for international users?
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Quentin

14 years ago

I guess Pollon you are not wanting to run a business so why worry about a blogger or gmail account. There are plenty of alternatives for personal use.

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Kezz

14 years ago

I encountered this a couple of days ago setting up a gmail account I'd only be using a little bit.

I really couldn't be bothered verifying the account at the time so I just restarted the signup process.

Lo and behold, no verification needed the second time round.

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Paul Myers

14 years ago

Funny thing I don't have a cellphone or a landline.

What do you think? Would you give your phone number to Google?

If you're a real old-timer to electronic messaging systems, you'll remember the days when virtually all bulletin board systems used voice verification.

And the wheel comes 'round again.

Paul

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KenThompson

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

If you're a real old-timer to electronic messaging systems, you'll remember the days when virtually all bulletin board systems used voice verification.

And the wheel comes 'round again.

Paul

Wow, must have been a hassle with the string and two cans thing.

Ken

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healthconverter

14 years ago

google is tightening up - however I think that it is a bad move on their part. Many people that have a gmail account do so to remain anonymous. Google does not respect anonymity anymore. My thoughts are that google is going to lose more and more market share as it has become very difficult to put up a successful campaign without burning a hole through your pocket. Yahoo and Bing are loving it! In fact, we do very little paid search on google anymore - just getting much more bang for our buck elsewhere.

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E. Brian Rose

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Pollon

Funny thing I don't have a cellphone or a landline.

What do you think? Would you give your phone number to Google?

I have no problem with this at all, but I am having a hard time getting past the part about you not having a phone. What if there is an emergency? Does 911 accept instant messages?

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Matt Morgan

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Pollon

I tried to open a blogger account, I failed... Then I tried to open a gmail account... failed again.

Why?

Google now ask for a phone number so that it can call or text you. They call this an anti spam policy.

Funny thing I don't have a cellphone or a landline.

What do you think? Would you give your phone number to Google?

Even if I had one I wouldn't post it or give it over the internet. When I had a cellphone just about 10 people had the number, because I don't really like to be bothered with phone calls or to be reachable always.

What are your thoughts? Do you think Google will lose a lot of potential users?

It is one way to reduce people registering multiple accounts, to use for their purpose.

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mainstreetcm

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Pollon

What do you think? Would you give your phone number to Google?

I had no problem verifying by phone when they asked me to. I'd rather show I'm not a spammer and be done with it, than have my account questioned later. As for giving my phone number to Google? I don't mind it much. Plus I'm still waiting for the Google Bot to call me and talk dirty :p

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RashmiP 14 years ago

I have never encountered this kind of problem. May be Google is doing phone verificarion to avoid frauds.
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renoriz

14 years ago

No big deal. they have had mine for a over a decade!!

I never get that birthday call Sniff...

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sambakker

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Pollon

I tried to open a blogger account, I failed... Then I tried to open a gmail account... failed again.

Why?

Google now ask for a phone number so that it can call or text you. They call this an anti spam policy.

Funny thing I don't have a cellphone or a landline.

What do you think? Would you give your phone number to Google?

Even if I had one I wouldn't post it or give it over the internet. When I had a cellphone just about 10 people had the number, because I don't really like to be bothered with phone calls or to be reachable always.

What are your thoughts? Do you think Google will lose a lot of potential users?

I signed up to another account today. The whole phone policys rubbish though I don't like it. I can see why google finds it necessary though, so many people abuse there email system for multiple accounts. I have 5 which I actively use and kinda need all of them...Just hoping their limit of accounts to one person is 10

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martialmarketer

14 years ago

Are you sure this is a new policy? I remember having to do this same thing when I first registered a gmail account a few years back.

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breeches

14 years ago

No way would Google loose their users as they have only used this method to curb spamming and with single phone number you can register more than 5 accounts..So i don't think there is going to be any problem to Google fans...

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tamilseo

14 years ago

clear your cookies then try again. Or use mail.yahoo.com

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dika

14 years ago

Maybe at google they have a lack of technology to fight spam, so they use stupid methods.

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jasonthewebmaster

Banned 14 years ago

I think its freakin B.S.

But there is a way around it. Go to an individual Google service such as Google webmaster tools or something and try to create an account from there, sometimes it works.

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Tina Golden 14 years ago

Don't you have to include your address and stuff when you set up a list? I'd be more worried about the nuts who might get your home address than worrying whether Google might give me a call.

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xieleri1

14 years ago

I feel the google does like this, may lose a lot of customers, maybe the google has her own plan

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OnlineMarketingSys

14 years ago

They don't always prompt you to phone verify. It happens sometimes because you login with multiple accounts from the same IP address, other times it's because you created several accounts, and still other times its completely random.

So, while they do require you to phone verify your account, it's NOT a policy nor is it 100%. You may want to try clearing your cache with cc cleaner, and refreshing your ip address on your router.

Worst case, if you simply don't have a phone number or don't want to provide one, there is an option to specify your having problems and you put that "I don't have a phone number" and they will manually activate the account.

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tpw

14 years ago

When you give them the number, make sure you are next to the phone when you do, because Google and others have software that will automatically call you when you submit a number to them.

Crooks don't share phone numbers, while serious business people usually will consider it. That is the main reason for the policy I suspect.

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PPC-Coach

14 years ago

It's a good move because they're getting so many fake accounts created to spam from. Nothing wrong with protecting their free services. Those email accounts do take up a ton of bandwidth and servers worldwide. It costs them a lot.

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Wounded

14 years ago

I'm not real fond of the new google policies. But you don't have many options other then to change what your doing to satisfy them. Granted you want to use their services..
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Ruhi Acharya

14 years ago

i had the same problem some days back gmail asked for a phone verification but then i just changed my ip cleared my cookies and history that did the trick

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Kevin_Hutto

14 years ago

Lots of people were opening 10-20 accounts a day... For spam. So it makes sense to me. Anything that makes the internet harder for spammers is good to me.

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thriftgirl62 14 years ago

Back in 1989 I had one of the first transportable cell phones that you could
take out of your car. See the handle - it huge but I was one of the few who had one!!

Now I'm one of the few who refuse to carry one just so I can answer the same old question: Where you at? Doesn't anyone get tired of answering the phone to requests for various things people want??
Emergency? 9-1-1 Have you ever typed your phone number into Google search and see what comes up? Probably you and everywhere you've been lately - including this forum.

My number is listed as one of the Immigration offices 209-487-5091 so I put that number in Google and guess what? There I am. And people wonder why I don't answer the phone...except sometimes to tell some callers they better pack for deportation next Wednesday!!!
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