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Re:China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Verificatio... by notyourwork on Sunday August 27, 2017 @11:33AM (#15111170)
I'm not sure I agree with that answer. I just tried signing up to test this and after submitting was asked for a phone number to verify. The first form didn't require a phone but after that it redirected to a page with a link to https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/114129?hl=en&ctx=... that referencing GSuite verification.
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Re:China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Verificatio... by nwjtkjn on Sunday August 27, 2017 @02:18PM (#15111914)
I feel like this is a very recent change; I've definitely created "burner" gmail accounts in the past and I don't remember providing my cell phone number.
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Re:China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Verificatio... by notyourwork on Sunday August 27, 2017 @06:30PM (#15113167)
Yep, same here. For me it had to be at least 5 years ago.
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