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At least they let you delete the account.
Ashley Madison lets you disable your account...for free.
But if you want to actually delete it? $19, please.
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If there is a non-zero percentage (however small) of people who don't have phones, such a policy would exclude them entirely.
And, as someone mentions above, there's a 'Skip this Step' button.
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Skip works untill you go to leave a comment or upload something on Youtube and then you are back to the start as they block you and ask to send you a SMS again.
Google sells data to anyone that will pay and letting them have you address, phone number makes the data worth a lot more and i already get machines ringing me up
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Maybe it is a country thing. From India, can upload a video without giving any phone number.
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I use CyberGhost and can connect from India but Google knows all the addresses used by Cyber-Ghost and Tor exit nodes so i am stuffed.
Code i should run more often connects to Google over SSL (Often they force browsers to use HTTPS) and sends them a very slow stream of random searches so i get my own back because the data becomes worthless
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Facebook uses my phone number.
Anytime I try to log into Facebook from an unknown computer I'm texted a special code.
I appreciate the additional security.
BTW, if Google wanted to they could send a group of guys to your house. They could black bag you and string your arse up in the town square. They could claim you were a 'terrorist' and nobody would give a crap. In short, you're trying to protect the wrong thing - the robbers left 15 minutes ago with anything of value.
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Lots of people who have flead facebook don't share your views but if they have your number then rest assured it has been traded with Google.
I know this sounds silly unless you think about it but too me data has become a type of bit-coin to be traded, replicated and swapped as if it has real value. (Banks also trade and replicate money, it's called fractional reverse banking if you care to check)
its a bit like the 400 trillon $UDS worth of credit default swaps that are washing around the banking system where the name of the game is to accumlate more even if like funney money in the banking system this wealth can never be cased in for real goods without crashing the system.
Just think you are helping Facebook who has never turned a cent in profit during its history to push up its share value to something above $10bn so how does that work
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A phone book must really freak you out then...
I can change my phone number at any time.
My phone number isn't me - it doesn't uniquely identify me.
Unlike a social security number or thumbprint it may have belonged to someone else in the past or it may belong to someone else in the future.
It is amazing to me that the average American citizen freaks out over Google having a phone number and the same borderline paranoid tool votes for Obama who has made our medical records the purview of the Internal Revenue Service. The government listening in on thousands of calls, breaking privacy laws left and right - and people get upset over a phone number that is available in a directory.
I'm upset Google has my phone number because, I dunno, they might call me; however, I don't care that the government is recording my phone calls. <---- boggle
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MehGerbil wrote: the average American citizen freaks out over Google having a phone number
Look again... this dude isn't average or American.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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The last half of the message is a general rant not directed at him.
BTW, good on him for finding a country where the government doesn't record phone calls.
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MehGerbil wrote: A phone book must really freak you out then...
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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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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