I fuckin’ signed in to YouTube with my existing account damn it
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They use it for Google Maps as a pin. Nothing new, and not particularly weird either. You can just skip it and not tell them.
They don’t even pretend it’s for security reasons and just admit it’s for ads 🤣
I already gave up on Google when they started forcing you to send them your ID to watch age restricted videos.
What kind of bullshit is this?
God, I dislike Google so much. Funny to remember that once their motto used to be, “Do no evil.” Ha, good times.
Just click skip? They just use it for traffic notifications on maps and stuff.
But at some point, there will be no skip button. You know it, I know it, we all know it. This is like the creepy uncle who starts out by giving you candy and playing football in the yard. Then he wants you to sit on his lap before candy or football, but you can jump off whenever, until the day, he won’t let you. That is what these companies have been doing. I still remember the arm twisting they did when they took over youtube and we all liked youtube so much, we ended up giving in to it.
The end game for them is to own all your personal information and have total control over your online activity. Them giving you a skip button is a fake comfort. They probably already know where you live too.
For my part, I have just accepted that my basic bitch info is out there. Whatever I haven’t shared myself, have been shared either by a phone book service in my country or by databrokers who have sold my info to random companies and scammers.
Anonymity online is an illusion unless you are a very tech savvy which most of us are not.
This is a very long comment when they definitely already know users addresses, lol
I was just thinking how much we’ve lost. Each generation grows up with this stuff being normalized by people saying “it’s fine just skip it”. But the early days of the internet was so much different compared to the people today.
It took them less than a decade to make us accept this new order online. From 2010 to 2015 more or less.
Personally, I miss when online communities were places where you shared things you found online. I miss when it was a place where you could personalize your profiles and where people still enjoyed reading blogs and things like that.
I miss when the internet was for people and not for corporations.
It was scary back then too, with pedos, hackers and so on, but it does hit differently when corporations are in control of how we interact with one another and they get to set the rules for what they can demand of you before connecting you with their platforms.
I do hope that someday this corporate chokehold on the internet will collapse and we will see a revival of true free and creative “social media” like it used to be. I miss the blogs and the forums and the art sharing sites that didn’t suck ass like they do nowadays.
More like asking you to confirm what they already know.
Yeah, ridiculous isn’t it.
Recently validated data has more value tho
You can skip that step. Not that it’s okay, tho.
For now.
not for now, but forever. they’d be in huge trouble with EU regulations should they ever dare to change it
For now.
They already force phone numbers in the EU.
Literally every of these Google “add information xy” boxes has been skippable for years now
Phone number?
Next year:
Sorry, your login looks suspicious. For your security, you’ve been permanently locked out of your account.
Since you never willingly gave us your address, you cannot submit a request to regain access to your account. Thank you for all the data. You cannot contact us. Have a nice day, dumbfuk
There are some people who will put this data, the ones who usually agree to all cookies. So even if you let users skip, with some dark patterns you can manage to influence a lot of people. Example: I set up local windows accounts for a couple of family members, yet somehow a week later or so they had online Microsoft accounts connected.
Trust me, Google already knows your home address.
also, I know yours.
Skip
We may not always have that option…
Where?
Seems like you can remove that address later as google said themselves in that screenshot.
This was fun when my business address was some office I’d never been to.
Just enter
127.0.0.1~/
~ sweet ~
Aaaand now 1,337 other users can reset your password and steal your account.
Elite
31337
9876 rode st., vilij, provençe 012345
Use Google’s address.
There’s a shit ton of new regulations and they’re probably trying to figure out what filters and shit to apply to which viewers
I mean this isn’t new. How do you think you can say go to work or go home and have maps take you there.
It’s less creepy than asking “This is your home address, isn’t it?”
Yeh, not like they can’t work it out.
(That said, they have no idea about my house number because I can’t get them to understand the building I’m in has multiple houses in it…)
Yeah, pretty sure I remember clicking skip on this as many as 5 years ago. Google Maps has asked to store your home address for as long as I can remember.
Seeing this post made me realize I have fallen for this trap already.
Oh? Just what I was looking for! An opportunity to be manipulated more effectively by my owners.
You can change or remove this any time…
Haha, cute.
