Google started requiring phone numbers years ago, it’s an attempt to cut down spam and bot accounts. You can only register so many accounts on a single phone number and getting phone numbers at scale is much more expensive than sending a bot through the signup process.
This has nothing to do with compromise, they just don’t want to deal with this many bot accounts. I’m pretty sure Microsoft and Apple do the same thing.
Google started requiring phone numbers years ago, it’s an attempt to cut down spam and bot accounts. You can only register so many accounts on a single phone number and getting phone numbers at scale is much more expensive than sending a bot through the signup process.
This has nothing to do with compromise, they just don’t want to deal with this many bot accounts. I’m pretty sure Microsoft and Apple do the same thing.
Clearly.
Whatever excuse they might have doesn’t change the fact that they are extorting phone numbers from people.