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Are you sure it's not part of the 2 step verification system? Many online accounts are going that way...
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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I understand you might find this hard to beleive because it goes against everything your are being told but i scanned 700,000 google Urls (It was all i could find in English) and three months later I tested to see who was still up and running and if the site went 404 then i ran a DNS-Looup to see if the domain name had been removed.
Take it from me small sites are droping like flies because people have learned that you cannot make a profit from running a little site with adverts at the top that cover something like "How to knit" and google is playing a big part in this happening because not only do they get no income but these sites get few visitors and are hidden on page 99 of googles personlized search results even if they are good unless they pay google some cash.
Two stage registration won't help matters.
Sorry i don't know if big sites are getting bigger but i do know that the end result is less work for us.
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Dr Gadgit wrote: Two stage registration won't help matters.
...ummmm.... Two Step Verification doesn't have anything to do with Google search or advertising.
You seem to have a bias and an agenda as it relates to Google. Good luck with that...
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Mike,
I reported him to the Google.
They'll know what to do... and if they don't, they can Google it.
evil laugh
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So, after reading the comments, the general thought is...
I want a FOR PROFIT organization to created and host a series of services that I can use FOR FREE without having to be bothered with advertising.
If you want to dance, you have to pay the band...
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The joke is most of them have never made a cent in profit and yet are valued at billions.
Competion does not work in the current monoply and even if you took what twatter is doing, improved it by 200% then your site would not see the light of day because the big all american boys will push you out.
I for one won't be paying peeping toms to look through my letter box who all received seed money from the CIA or NSA and we all know who i am talking about.
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It's just a phone number man. I'm all for privacy, but it's not like they're looking up your wife's skirt.
Jeremy Falcon
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I am no expert in anyway when it comes to G3/4 phones but did you know that network providers are not allowed to encrypt voice calls and you have to resort to installing a App on both ends of the call to stop anyone listening in.
Why do you think the law is like that ?
Are we all to be treate as terrorists, guilty until proved inocent.
Stupid David Cameron even talked about banning HTTPS on the internet and was shown to be a fool but SSL is not half as secure as people think it is anyway, see my research
Did you also know that fake phone masts are being set up all the time to intercept calls and then relay them on to real cell phone stations or they can even do this from helicopters.
No they might not be looking up my wifes knickers but i don't want it public knowlage if i want too look only to find out that Google has traded my gay boyfreinds address for this bit of information.
If they are going to such lengths to spy on us then i will go to any lengths to stop them.
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I totally agree with what you're saying, but I would take that up with the phone providers or the government before blaming websites that ask for a number. It's blaming the wrong party.
Jeremy Falcon
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TV's, Tablets, Laptops and phones are all merging into one and if we give into them wanting our phone numbers then will it be our national insurance number next because they think they can own you.
Google is so big in parts of india that the locals think the internet is google.
My privacy has no price and politicians who should be passing laws to protect it are taking payments from corporaions to infrindge more into my life whilst at the same time trying to squash freedom of speech.
Feel free to shoot me down but i see a time not too far away when you have to decide if you will let them implant you with a RFID chip (Like a dog) to get that new job all for security reasons ofcourse and not only that but you will be made to ware a form of google glasses just so the manager can keep an eye on you, it's all profit you know.
We are well past the point were we need to take up this fight and should be pushing back.
See http://www.truthorfiction.com/nbc-rfid-chips-prediction/
also http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2934241/Swedish-company-implants-microchips-staff.html
I won't have any part of this madness anymore
Ho, yes and this is from a guy that built a system for a well known corporation that turned workers into slaves and had them scanning bar code every ten seconds after unpacking goods and even scanning a bar-code on the toilet door when they went for a pee and that was ten years ago.
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Your're missing the original point man.
Jeremy Falcon
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You could be right but make no mistake i have nothing good to say for ISP's and advise anyone to chuck the free router they give you away and buy yourself a firewall that stops the ISP's browsing youn LAN and I also know that was governments not paying Google for its data then they would be a lot less spying going on.
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Oh boy, I have bad news for you. Do you have a friend with Android phone? If so, then they already have your phone number. Do your friends use Facebook? I bet at lease one of them shared their contact list, so Facebook have your phone number, email and name too.
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Me misses only hooked up to whatApp so i know i am stuffed with the current number but maybe i won't be conditioned like others to just accept that we should all be watched.
What kind of world are we building if we just go along with it because its easy
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SMS is better than e-mail if you try to recover your account. Just saying.
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I think you're over-reacting. Honestly, it's a freaking phone number. Who cares?
Dr Gadgit wrote: hey have spy scripts (Often Hidden in SSL) on just about ever web-site in the world
If there's a spy script on my website, it's because I put it there, or because the provider (like SquareSpace) put it there. And as far as Squarespace putting it there, all the better, as it provides some automatic indexing that makes my website more visible.
Marc
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Yes indeed so, no google scripts, bad google rating and your are on page 76 of any google search results.
I don't blame you one bit but don't take any stats you get for the site serious
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Dr Gadgit wrote: I don't blame you one bit but don't take any stats you get for the site serious
Heck, I don't even look at the stats! 
Marc
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Hey Doc, you can borrow my tin foil hat, sounds like you need it more than I do. I applaud your paranoia, but then I have similar attitudes, just not the dedication to do something about it!
While I try hard to minimise the exposure of personal data I don't take it to extremes. Google has my phone number and probably every other salient, or at least commercial piece of information about me, I own a phone 
I still think you are even more nuts than I am 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Yes thanks for the loan of the tin foil hat, only trouble is i dare not give you me address on air to sent it too me.
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I consider my everyday phone number about as private as my house's street number, both simply being means to direct communications to my. If I wanted to discuss anything off record, I'd simply get another one just for that purpose.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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You can probably set up Google authenticator as [^] as a part of 2 step verification.
Having done this, I have never been asked for phone number. But then, I do not comment on or upload videos on YouTube.
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Thanks for the offer mate but i have as little to do with google as i can and they are the problem and not any part of the solution.
They should just stick to running a seach engine and not be forcing people to host spyscripts for them or else the site ends up on page 79 of any search results.
Also they should stop sorting the results to present a fake picture of the real world as is the case when it comes to politics
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Dr Gadgit wrote: Thanks for the offer mate but i have as little to do with google as i can and they are the problem and not any part of the solution.
I have a very different opinion on this. Some Google products are extremely valuable.
For other points you mentioned, I consider that are mere speculation. I am not saying it is false but it is not proven to be true either.
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If you care to look at some of the google spy-scripts then you would know that it is not speculation and also note that google is in court every other week.
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