i know you're just fucking with me google

you ask me for a phone number again and i'm punching you in the nads

i'm not giving you my goddamn phone number

lol it'll keep doing that

over and over

periodically, not all the time, but it will keep happening because google is a dick

no, it's kept asking me

now i CAN'T access it

yup

without entering my phone number

y u p

...put in a fake?

that happened to me at one point

/empties cache and tries again

it actually came in handy for me at one point, when my address got hacked -- i could verify it through my number

still, not a huge fan

yyyeeaahhh i don't trust google

i don't interlink any of my accounts on anything...ever

they're not getting my phone number

That's... ehhh. I mean I gave the number because I didn't see the harm for myself

Yeah, I get leery when accounts ask for that kind of stuff too. And the fact that they're mandating it before you can access your account?

but making it compulsory is like..why would you do that.

that's one reason why i saw the harm in it?

it shouldn't be compulsory

making something like that compulsory always makes me suspicious

thus why i didn't bitch about it before, since they were just like "hey do this" and gave you the option to back out

ia. i think they claim it's for security purposes, but...

.... a different backup email was always sufficient before.

nothing in the fine print that lets you skip it? pretty sure there is, unless I'm confusing gmail with something else

no they USUALLY give you the option of skipping it but

this time there is absolutely nothing that lets me bypass it

i've tried just about everything so hey, if i have to cancel my account with them good riddance

it's a pain in the ass but i'm not messing with this bullshit