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YouTube/Google want your phone number

Seditious Broadcaster | 15.03.2011 22:54 | Repression | Technology

New rules for posting on YouTube are an invasion of privacy and make anonymous posting much harder.

If you want to set up a new YouTube account, or even log in to your already existing YouTube account, you are now asked to provide a GoogleMail address and link it.

If you try to set up a new Googlemail account, you are asked for your phone number "in order to verify you are a human not a robot". You will then receive a text or automated voice call with details of how to verify your Google account.

In other words, to access your already established YouTube log in, you now have to provide a telephone number.

Anyone think this is a sinister and unwelcome new process?

Seditious Broadcaster

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  1. unnecessary — newsmedia
  2. Easy. — Bill Gates
  3. Easy. — Bill Gates
  4. @Easy — Me again
  5. Not only Youtube affected — torbrowser
  6. Any number — Not a person
  7. Get a throwaway SIM — anon
  8. real reason — voice of the truth