Want GMail? Pls give us your mobile number...

Has anyone considered giving them a phoney phone number?

 

No. It's a verification system. like a website asking for your e-mail when signing up then sending you a link to click. With sms verification they send you a password instead. Without the password you can't open the account.

But from what has been said here, google have backed down.

 

Odd that some say that they havent been asked for a phone number - the article comments at The Register contained a number of examples of guys having to provide phone numbers when setting up a new account.

Perhaps at this time its region-specific and is being gradually applied across countries as time goes on.

And... Here

 

I was asked for a number when this first came to light (see my previous post early in the thread), but indeed it is no longer required (I am in the States).

 

Aha. Thanks for the update.

Just out of interest does anyone have a link to an announcement from the G where they state that this requirement has been done away with. Not that I doubt dw426, I'd just like to see what they had to say on the matter.

 

I've been trying to find the same thing because up until I was informed here in the forum, I thought it still stood. I've not seen one shred of writing stating it's changed. But, I shall keep looking

 

But they were in fact demanding it for a while. When I tried.....and I tried twice just to make sure......they would not let me set it up. They said that if I did not have a mobile phone then I could use a friend's phone that allowed text. That was the only way. But I am glad that they no longer require it.

 

And I am the walrus....goo goo ga joop!

Sorry. Something just came over me.

 

I don't know what happened to Fly. But I've been using GMX since 1997, and I can assure you that they are trustworthy. They are the biggest or one of the biggest German email providers. I doubt that gmx.com handles things different than gmx.net.

 

Nice thread. Few months ago I asked about it in Wilders poll:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=244872
As you can see many people still trust Google Inc.

 

I have now pretty well retired my gmail accounts and have moved them over to gmx.

So far so good.

 

Do you mean gmx.com or gmx.net?
I ask because on gmx.com I am unable to create account (popup error) with blank space

 

gmx.com works fine for me - I have had no issues with it at all. You sure you dont have anything giving the page grief, like NoScript?

Have just seen gmx.net - shopping, entertainment, games etc... ewwww :/

 

BTW, I just had a look at setting up a fresh account at gmx.com and seems fine.

 

Thanks tsec for your reply.
I get the same error as mentioned on this site:
http://www.freedomlist.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=188328
Thats odd...