I fuckin’ signed in to YouTube with my existing account damn it
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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.
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.
Just enter
127.0.0.1Aaaand now 1,337 other users can reset your password and steal your account.
Elite
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~ sweet ~
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.
Literally every of these Google “add information xy” boxes has been skippable for years now
Phone number?
not for now, but forever. they’d be in huge trouble with EU regulations should they ever dare to change it
For now.
They already force phone numbers in the EU.
Next year:
Sorry, your login looks suspicious. For your security, you’ve been permanently locked out of your account. Since you never willingly gave us your address, you cannot submit a request to regain access to your account. Thank you for all the data. You cannot contact us. Have a nice day, dumbfuk
They use it for Google Maps as a pin. Nothing new, and not particularly weird either. You can just skip it and not tell them.
9876 rode st., vilij, provençe 012345
Use Google’s address.
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.
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.
Seeing this post made me realize I have fallen for this trap already.
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…)
This was fun when my business address was some office I’d never been to.
There’s a shit ton of new regulations and they’re probably trying to figure out what filters and shit to apply to which viewers
They don’t even pretend it’s for security reasons and just admit it’s for ads 🤣
I already gave up on Google when they started forcing you to send them your ID to watch age restricted videos.
More like asking you to confirm what they already know.
Yeah, ridiculous isn’t it.
Recently validated data has more value tho
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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.
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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.
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I like how you conveniently cropped out the “try another way” button:
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You mean the “fuck you, go in an infinite circle” button?
Puts: 123 Fake St
Use Google’s address.
Hey! I live there!
Whoa. We’re housemates!
Yeah, and they still owe us money for the electricity bill
Trust me, Google already knows your home address.
also, I know yours.
