I fuckin' signed in to YouTube with my existing account damn it
It's been doing this for over a decade. It's used by maps to create automatic pins for home and work, for easier routing (and profit if course).
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With your phone they already know it and where you are in every moment, if you don't desactivate GPS.
What kind of bullshit is this?
God, I dislike Google so much. Funny to remember that once their motto used to be, "Do no evil." Ha, good times.
More like asking you to confirm what they already know.
Yeah, ridiculous isn't it.
Oh? Just what I was looking for! An opportunity to be manipulated more effectively by my owners.
You can change or remove this any time...
Haha, cute.
You can skip that step. Not that it's okay, tho.
There are some people who will put this data, the ones who usually agree to all cookies. So even if you let users skip, with some dark patterns you can manage to influence a lot of people. Example: I set up local windows accounts for a couple of family members, yet somehow a week later or so they had online Microsoft accounts connected.
For now.
not for now, but forever. they'd be in huge trouble with EU regulations should they ever dare to change it
They already force phone numbers in the EU.
For now.
Literally every of these Google "add information xy" boxes has been skippable for years now
I mean this isn't new. How do you think you can say go to work or go home and have maps take you there b
It's less creepy than asking "This is your home address, isn't it?"
Yeh, not like they can't work it out.
(That said, they have no idea about my house number because I can't get them to understand the building I'm in has multiple houses in it....)
Yeah, pretty sure I remember clicking skip on this as many as 5 years ago. Google Maps has asked to store your home address for as long as I can remember.
9876 rode st., vilij, provençe 012345
Bruh, I was testing some android features and wiped an android phone, then when I tried to log in again, they wanted a verification code from the previous device, the one I just wiped. Not even will a phone number satisfy them.
Its essentially locked out, unless I get a time machine to undo wiping the phone.
I mean, what happens if someone lose their phone and wants to log in to google to wipe their device? Like... how would you obtain the verification code on a phone a thief now has?
Its just even just privacy issues, Google is braindead when it come to their "security".
Luckily, I wiped it in settings so FRP was off.
I like how you conveniently cropped out the "try another way" button:
Read my other comment. It leads back to the same thing.
No, this is user error. It clearly strongly recommended you to print out your backup code when the MFA was enabled. If you forgot or ignored it and then wiped an important phone, that's on you.
Okay, so I attempted to access it again. Its currently in a weird state of partial access.
I can "log in" but as soon as I try to access anything, say, Gmail, I get that screen again.
This is what the settings page looks like:
So its not totally locked out, but its not functional either, I'm not even on a VPN.
Notice, 2FA is off.
Then I click Gmail and get this:
I tap "more ways to verify" and get this:
I tap the only option, and it circles back to the previous screen.
🤷♂️
I like that when you come across one of the many Google dark patterns and complain about it, a fanboy always shows up out of nowhere to tell you it's impossible and you did something wrong.
I once had an issue logging in to Google where they wanted to verify me some way that I couldn't complete. I eventually got around it by going through the "Forgot Password" workflow instead of logging in normally. I have no idea if this still works or whether it will make things worse for you, but if all else fails it might be worth a try.
MFA was never enabled.