It’s been some years that I am not able to log in to my Google account, because I stopped using it for a very long time any Google product, and now even providing my password, they say they can not know if it is me or now…
They send me to this support page which seems like I have lost my account with all the data and stuff I had from when I was younger…
I don’t think this is normal or ethic to do (I know Google has been never ethic), but this makes me so angry because I never wanted to lose all that data…
Do they basically know every people networks? And if you don’t let them know… you lose access to Google? … 😠
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Yep.
I have an old Google account from like 2012 that was a spam trap account I made back when you could easily sign up anonymously for gmail over Tor. It will not let me log into it anymore unless I connect a phone number to it. It hems and haws about how this is “for your protection” but really it’s pretty simple that your activity has no value to Google unless they can tie it to your identity and connect it to other activity and then bundle that and sell it to advertisers. (And fuck you Google, I’m not protecting that account from anyone except you… hackers are WELCOME to know I types a throwaway email into some online medical insurance shit…)
In fact, if you don’t want companies to collect your data, you’re more and more locked out of any app, service or platform that asks for a verified email. I’ve encountered things recently that won’t accept protonmail emails (and invite you to use OAuth to sign in with Google, Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, fuck that noise).
I actually imagine that OAuth locked to a major provider FOR EVERYTHING is the future those guys would all like to see.
Yeah, I recently tried to sign up for a Playstation account and they wouldn’t let me use Proton. Thankfully I could use simplelogin but really shouldnt’ve needed to.
I’m new to Simple Login, though I’ve used throwaway addresses like mytrashmail (with no link to my real email of course) for a while. What I wonder is, if Sony are fussy about Proton, why do simplelogin domains not trip them up? That would seem even dodgier if you thought only services like Google’s were trustworthy.
Pretty sure its a domain blacklist, not whitelist. Not sure how they blocked Proton without blocking SimpleLogin, because anyone who does any research into Proton will hear about it.
Yep. Twitch (Amazon) has started requiring people to add their phone number to be able to message each other and plan to lock out access to more and more features if you don’t.
They also stopped accepting one-time use CC numbers because, obviously, they’re a great privacy feature offered by some banks.
Hahaha, right now I couldn’t use that (with social media accounts)… for now I have always seen an option to log in with “magic link” at least, which is super cool, no passwords.
Happens to me all the time when I’m on VPN.
Also, stop using the conjunction “so” to start sentences.
So, what happens if you don’t stop using so to start sentences?
Makes sense, I edited the post to remove that, I think now looks better yeah, thanks.
I am so tired of doing all their fucking captchas because I run a vpn. It’s so obnoxious.
You don’t need to solve any captcha with this https://github.com/dessant/buster, and it works very well for me.
So, let me get this straight… The Capcha is trying to verify that you’re a human, and you’re using a bot to prove that you’re, in fact, not a bot? This is friggin genius!
Lol yeah right? So silly…
If anything the bot is far more successful than I am solving captchas manually
I would categorize this as a complete and utter failure of the capcha concept and company.
Appreciate it!
That sentence fragment is missing a subject.
The subject is implicit.
If you mean that communicating an idea using language should take priority over strict adherence to rules of grammar, and that language is a living, changing thing continuously redefined by its usage, I agree.
No, I usually aspire to be nice.
That non-sequitur is a perfect example of impeccable grammar that fails to adequately communicate an idea.