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On one level, this is excellent advice. Unfortunately for me, my hatred of all things google is stronger than my desire to win. It is the same for MS. My only consolation in life is taht I suspect in two years google's stock will go through the floor when people figure out AI is 100x better than google at search.
Presently, I have paid subscriptions to 3 AIs, Grok, Claude and ChatGPT. Grok recently found me exactly what I wanted in less than 10 seconds after I stupidly tried search first.
This. After all, there are tons of services that offers "disposable" gmail accounts, so , if a scammer want to use a gmail account for fraud, he surely can without even registering his own gmail...
This is NOT a scam. Just a fact that anyone has not believed him till now... But the first that will believe and answer... $$$$$$$
I met a couple with the last name Prince. They didn't end up having children, but he said if had a son, he'd have named him "Nigerian".
It's not practical to universally block Gmail.
it's not because Gmail and Proton do not require phone number to use it, it's because they are free. you don't need phone number to get you a custom domain Email, but that's not free.
Custom domain with ProtonMail costs a few bucks per month and lets you have the best of both worlds: ProtonMail service + non-ProtonMail email address.
But again, it's not free, but it's not terribly expensive if it's what you're looking for.
Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten that. I have a bunch of parked domains. I should just dedicate one to Proton.
I’m genuinely curious to know which provider has such absurd rules. I’ve never come across one in all these years.
Preblocking ports, IPs, emails.... What's next??? It's the bad dangerous practice. Such providers must go to Hell!!!
This is more about abuse prevention than censorship. I'm for reasonable abuse prevention but at the end of the day, it's their business and this isn't really discrimination against the person and would accept business through other (reasonable) contact methods. If it put undue hardship, that's something else.
They always require one in certain European countries where everyone is expected to have a phone number and use it to sign up for things.