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  • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlI am asked for Gmail
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    6 days ago

    If you use a shared IP (eg on a school machine) whose fingerprint isn’t uniquely tied to your real world identity (name, birthday, etc), then they will flag it and demand a phone number or an image of a State issued ID so that they can link it to your identity.

    If you don’t provide this, they will lock you out of the account and delete your account.

    Google isn’t providing email for free. They need to be able to sell data about you to third parties. And if they can’t link it to your identity when they sell that data, they’ll delete it because you’re not giving them enough $$ to offset the expense of your account hosting

    If you managed to not have this happen to you with your other accounts, it’s because they saw you login on another device that is uniquely fingerprinted and tied to your identity. Or they read your email and determined your real identity from the emails (eg amazon account purchases, address or name somewhere in an email)


  • That’s because they are all linked to your identity

    Which is harmful to you because they’re selling all this information about you. And you shouldn’t recommend that others do the same. We should help people, not suggest things harmful to people.

    There exists many other email providers that do not sell your data (most in GDPR countries), and they won’t delete your account if you manage to register it anonymously