Google’s official MFA app is YouTube, so I assume so. (Every time I login to gmail or google docs, the MFA ping opens YouTube on my phone to approve the login.)
Uh, okay. My account isn’t even registered to a phone number, never has been, and my mobile devices aren’t registered with Google.
I’m currently only signed into Google on my laptop, and if I do happen to sign into another device (which has happened before), Google just drops me an email something along these lines…
‘A new device has logged into your account. If this wasn’t you, click here, but if it was you, there’s nothing you need to do’
check your permissions, & then check, on google, what those perms allow…
IF you’re in Android, not iPhone, THEN there is nothing you can do to block google from knowing your phone-number.
Whether iPhone users truly have privacy from google…
i wouldn’t bet much on that…
As former mafia man ( Firenzese, or something ) said:
once they’ve got enough all-pervading leverage on you, then you cannot win: the leverage locks.
I’m misphrasing it, and he was speaking about the mob, but the principle is true, globally not only in the context he was speaking.
All of surveillance-capitalism is rooted in putting the subjects/serfs in a panopticon, & never letting them out, squeezing them all until the individuals die, being replaced by new inmates, but the population-as-a-whole never would be tolerated to escape…
Perfect industrialized parasitism.
sorry about the bitterness: i’m an old geek & had some idea of what good could be done, world-wide, with tech…
DarkTriad’s incorporated-feudalism proved it won, totally, easily.
Google’s official MFA app is YouTube, so I assume so. (Every time I login to gmail or google docs, the MFA ping opens YouTube on my phone to approve the login.)
Uh, okay. My account isn’t even registered to a phone number, never has been, and my mobile devices aren’t registered with Google.
I’m currently only signed into Google on my laptop, and if I do happen to sign into another device (which has happened before), Google just drops me an email something along these lines…
‘A new device has logged into your account. If this wasn’t you, click here, but if it was you, there’s nothing you need to do’
check your permissions, & then check, on google, what those perms allow…
IF you’re in Android, not iPhone, THEN there is nothing you can do to block google from knowing your phone-number.
Whether iPhone users truly have privacy from google…
i wouldn’t bet much on that…
As former mafia man ( Firenzese, or something ) said:
once they’ve got enough all-pervading leverage on you, then you cannot win: the leverage locks.
I’m misphrasing it, and he was speaking about the mob, but the principle is true, globally not only in the context he was speaking.
All of surveillance-capitalism is rooted in putting the subjects/serfs in a panopticon, & never letting them out, squeezing them all until the individuals die, being replaced by new inmates, but the population-as-a-whole never would be tolerated to escape…
Perfect industrialized parasitism.
sorry about the bitterness: i’m an old geek & had some idea of what good could be done, world-wide, with tech…
DarkTriad’s incorporated-feudalism proved it won, totally, easily.
🙏
My Android devices have never been logged into Google, and the tablet I’m posting from has no SIM card, so it has no phone number.
They have no record of a phone number for me, because I’ve never signed into Google on any active Android device.
Edit: I also have Google Play and Services, and most other Google apps disabled. FOSS for the win! They really don’t have any phone number for me.