Google Shared My Phone Number!
Google Shared My Phone Number!
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Google Shared My Phone Number!
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Guy uses phone number for business, shocked when it gets listed for that business. More at 11.
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Except he provided it for identify verification, and if I was asked for this my assumption would be they need a mobile number to send a verification text message. If Google wanted a business number in order to publish it online they should state that clearly.
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Yeah fuck Google. Delete all Google accounts before it's too late. Plenty of alternatives exist and you can still benefit from their rankings and whatnot, if your business depends on that.
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Sort of hard to exist without interacting with Google at all (lots of the material I'm given in courses is hosted on YouTube).
Your best bet is to use separate isolated/siloed accounts for their different services, never let your GCS account be attached to Gmail or one of their consumer facing products for example, lest it get nuked because some automated system went haywire and now you're scrambling to get the account back.
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You can use YouTube without an account. And without even using their website, bypassing their ads and their tracking.
Android has Grayjay, Newpipe, Pipepipe, Vanced. Windows has Grayjay, Newpipe, Freetube, yt-dl and others. Linux has Red, Utube, Freetube.. You get the point.
You do still need a login for age-locked videos, but those are a small subset of YouTube.
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Sort of hard to exist without interacting with Google at all
I explicitely did not claim that.
And as the other guy said, you don't need a G account to watch youtube.
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Wait, you can actually delete a Gmail account?!
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I recently discovered that if you ask gpt-4o if there are any anarchist therapists in Florida, it provides my phone number in the text body of the response. I think this is very cool, but my partner disagrees 😅
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It might be an Android phone you’ve called who marked the phone number as a business and added Three Rings to it. Might not be, I’ve just noticed I get queried after being called or calling numbers not in my contacts, whether it’s a business phone number.
This makes sense to me.
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I wonder if it’s possible to specifically exclude your business/website/project from google search. Surely that must be something you can legally do.
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Sure, reach out to every website and human on the planet, read through each terms and conditions, and hire fewer than 8 billion lawyers to litigate if they don't. Easy peasy.
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If it's your personal info, you can ask for it here.
If it's your own website you want delisted, that's here.Now do the same for bing, ddg, startpage, yandex, yahoo, kagi, brave, ask, ecosia etc etc....
Which is to say, if it's on the internet and publicly accessible, assume it's permanent and going to be indexed at some point.
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Isn't it a function of Google Maps that anybody can submit changes to the business informations of a company listed there?
It's like a wiki where all registered uses can suggest contributions.
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I think it's dodgy as well I'd been job searching and I guess I accidently linked Google somehow, so now the sites completely ignoring the details I gave it and insists on sending everything to my Gmail instead of Proton which I actually ditched Gmail for.
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anyone can make a google company profile. seems like clickbait.
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"Some years ago, I provided my phone number to Google as part of an identity verification process, but didn’t consent to it being shared publicly."
That may have been the case at the time, but Google have a bad habit of updating legal documents and settings from time to time. Even if you didn't consent to it directly, you may have agreed to a contract you didn't read, which resulted in Google doing everything permitted in that contract. Chances are, the contract says that Google can legally screw around as much as they like, and you're powerless to do anything about it.
Those pesky "We have updated our privacy policy" emails. And "by ignoring this message you have signaled consent" (paraphrasing).
People should really start demanding more sensible terms. Currently, people just don’t care, and companies are taking full advantage of the situation.
And such contracts are legally unenforceable, if you've got the resources to sue.