Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat

  • DoomBot5@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Dumb take. All it’s warning you is that without those, you won’t have a way to recover your account it you lose your password or if it’s hacked and someone changes it.

    • Matomo@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m all for bashing companies regarding privacy and whatnot, but this is just informing/warning you about account security.

  • anteaters@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Google can close your email account down at any time for any stupid reason they like and their nonexistant support will leave you standing in the rain without access to years of mails. Switch to a paid mailer with actual support ASAP

    • TCB13@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I once paid for Lavabit email and it was then raided by the NSA/CIA/FBI (Snowden case) and they shut everything down. I lost access to my account and to a 3rd party account that had a considerable amount of money pending withdrawal. I was never able to get the money. Lesson learnt: paying for your email won’t save you.

      • ram@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Ya, never trust US companies. Their government’s crazy to jump in and take anything they want; you may not even know they took it.