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Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat

  • ono@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This has nothing to do with compromise,

    Clearly.

    they just don’t want to deal with this many bot accounts.

    Whatever excuse they might have doesn’t change the fact that they are extorting phone numbers from people.