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by Shooti
4511 days ago
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On B, "Hangouts" and the opt out check box on that page only appears if you've previously opted in by saying yes to the "help my friends find me on google services/Confirm my number with a 1 time SMS" prompt either via Hangouts, or the Google Dialer in KitKat via a Nexus device. Otherwise it just shows Account Recovery, or nothing at all with no Phone number. The feature is opt-in, not opt-out. As for your name and number showing up, to double check the obvious make sure the handset you tested on wasn't sync'd to Google allowing it to auto-populate the automated on-Device "Me" contact entry with your pic. If it was someone else's Google account synced phone, they have you in a Google Contacts entry w/ an email address, since that would pull in your pic and make it accessible to the dialer. That's their prerogative, not yours. |
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It was not my phone, it was a friends who had started from a fresh android 4.4 install. There was no google contact sync. Even if the contact sync was in place, it would be unlikely that the other party would have used my 5 year old YouTube avatar and populated it with both my email and phone number and full name. If my contact on his google side was populated from my gmail; as I have emailed the other party before, it shouldn't contain my phone number either - unless google matched it and shared.
Something went wrong. I think my account is an edge case and I was opted into a service (you are dickheads. Opt out is always evil.) and because I had not consumed enough other services my account was not given the option to opt out. Point remains, google matched my recovery number with my profile, which they said they wouldn't. I can't see any other explanation.