For some reason Google
signed me out of one of my accounts yesterday. When I logged back in, it tried
to get me to “verify” a phone number where they can call me for whatever
purpose they take it into their heads to execute.
At no time have I ever
tried to associate a phone number of any stripe with a Google account. However,
I do have an entirely fictitious set of digits that I use for the times when
you absolutely have to give some online entity a number if you want their “free”
thing.
So here’s the creepy
thing: I’ve never “given” that number to Google, so they obviously scraped it
from times when I was using Chrome as the vehicle for “signing up” for
something online.
I tried, but they don’t
give you an option for “Hell no, I won’t verify anything.” So I just deleted it
and clicked continue.
They tried again to get
me to bite, but I just clicked Done, and I appear to be okay.
For now.
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