[CodesInChaos]

I have a 10 year old gmail account. Every time I log in (from a residential IP) there is a 50% chance that it'll reject me despite entering the correct password, demanding a phone number.

> Its for anti spam. Imagine if someone created a bunch of email addresses in one go without the phone requirement. You could abuse the 15 gb per account allocation pretty easily, or you could use those emails for spamming others.

That may be the goal. But it also makes using the internet anonymously very hard, since getting a phone number are linked to real names in my country.

There should be less invasive solutions, like rate limiting sending of emails from new accounts.

[nix23]

>using the internet anonymously

Use:

-Protonmail not Gmail

-Swisscom myCloud not Drive

-Neocities not blogger

-Matrix (Element) or Signal/Wire not Talk/Whatsup/etc