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[–] roserose56@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its not just google, it's every service now days that requires phone number. Specifically the big ones. For example, I remember gmx and mail.com didn't ask for a phone number, but they do now.

The "confirm that you are a human with a phone number"

The “confirm that you are a human with a phone number”

Because I have never received a robocall from a bot using a real phone number...