Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it less secure

Re:Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it ... by lucb1e on Thursday October 20, 2016 @08:52PM (#12757456)

I think you've made your opinion clear. Why continue to try pushing it as fact? There are a thousand factors at play in spam/fraud/whatever detection, how can you possibly say with a straight face that you're certain the phone number is not a leading reason?

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Re:Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it ... by eveningcoffee on Thursday October 20, 2016 @09:05PM (#12757504)

It may be that this persons knows something more that we do not (does not seem to be the case) or has very different experience.

I do not mind this. It is indeed possible that the cause of the ban originated from some other source as from entered personal details and sequence of actions.

It actually motivates me to create another experiment.

While this statement will be really buried, it reminds me that we still should be thankful that we can somewhat conceal our identity as a private enterprise can be much more unforgiving that the state.

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Re:Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it ... by weaksauce on Thursday October 20, 2016 @11:54PM (#12758039)

From what I can tell from a few days ago, you can't create a new account without a phone number.

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Re:Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it ... by Symbiote on Friday October 21, 2016 @03:00AM (#12758650)

From just now, I went to gmail.com and created a new account without entering a phone number or email address.

I then went to Youtube and uploaded a video.

I signed out, then in again. Google asked for a number and recovery email, but let me press "Done" without providing one.

I'll sign in later from a different IP, and see what happens.

Edit: I've come across [1], which says a phone number is required to upload videos longer than 15 minutes to YouTube, or in some cases to upload anything.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171664

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Re:Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it ... by dimino on Thursday October 20, 2016 @09:42PM (#12757613)

It's not my opinion, it is fact. There was a reason he was suspended, and it is not his phone number not being attached to his account.

Also, I didn't say anything about leading reason.

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Re:Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it ... by pdkl95 on Friday October 21, 2016 @04:05AM (#12758904)

> it is fact

No, it's a hasty generalization[1] where personal experience is assumed to match other cases.

Of course Google could have simply stated the reason for the suspension clearly, if they weren't so reliably opaque in support and service management issues,

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasty_generalization

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Re:Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it ... by eveningcoffee on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:25PM (#12757757)

So perhaps you will care to elaborate this a bit more?

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