[basilikum]

I'd be careful with that. Sounds like you could be mistaken for a bot that is part of the scheme and get your Google account banned.

Then again, you should live under the assumption that your Google account could be banned at any time with no recourse. You do have local backups of all your Google account data and don't need your Gmail account to access anything important, right?

[bombcar]

That makes me realize that banning is a punishment only usable on people who care about their account. Scammers don’t, a new bot account is a click away. But basilikum would be sad to lose his account.

[radlad]

For something like YouTube, there is a small monetary cost in order to verify a phone number.

[efilife]

you don't need to verify the phone number to comment

[basilikum]

Depends on how much Google dislikes your IP and browser.