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[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"improve security"

isn't basically common knowledge at this point phone recovery methods decrease security? How do companies keep getting away with this.

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

New users.

Even still, I moved off Gmail years ago. I keep my Google fingerprint minimal.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 7 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I would prefer they didn't do this, but I understand. Storage isn't without cost. 5 GB is a lot for email actually. It's probably intended to reduce abuse from bots. We should probably not be using free email anyway.

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[–] darkangelazuarl@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I purged all my email from google a while ago due to increasing privacy concerns.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

wtf do they need a ph# for? theyve got your email and sms ids(same as ph#). a ph# just seems like a bit of sales pitch food

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Whats the fucking point if they only let you attach a 25mb or smaller file.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

I'm intentionaly letting it overfill

[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Time to create a bunch of throwaway gmail accounts!

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Gee, would've been a shame if Google's employees go on strike and would start their own company.

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