alt Hacker NewsBTW, one more thing where Google thinks I'm stupid:
Increasingly, it tries to tie your phone number to your accounts. Fair enough, problems with fake accounts and all that, I don't like it but I understand it.
However, the prompt is invariably "Let us verify it's you. Please enter your phone number:" or something along those lines. With that, you don't verify that it's me. You just verify that someone has a phone number. It's for your protection, not for my protection. Don't patronise me.
Yes, that's annoying. I have no interest in connecting my phone number to accounts here and there.
Some firms go the other way.. I use the "Line" app for communication, and initially (many years ago) it was connected to your phone, which caused difficulties if you moved countries (among other things).
They have, however, now removed the connection to a phone number. Good.