Dear Googles: Stop asking

Re:Dear Googles: Stop asking by inopinatus on Saturday November 16, 2013 @02:23PM (#6746077)

Setting aside your hysterical NSA invocation. Once I give Google my phone number, it is yet another (and wholly unnecessary) place where I have to keep my phone number updated.

Moreover, in the event that it changes, I have a Google verification problem.

So the fact that I don't trust Google not to leak it somehow is by the by, although that is why I also disabled their "web history" tracking service. No, what really annoys me is that they, and every other service that overcollects, are creating future data management debt for me to deal with. Like I don't have enough already.

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Re:Dear Googles: Stop asking by SomeCallMeTim on Saturday November 16, 2013 @02:36PM (#6746124)

I just give them my Google Voice number. Then I don't have an "additional number to track."

Not that phone numbers need to change any more anyway. With universal portability, unless you move outside of the country, you can keep your phone # with you.

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Re:Dear Googles: Stop asking by ams6110 on Saturday November 16, 2013 @08:08PM (#6747114)

Sometimes you want to change your phone number.

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