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Google's practice of requiring Gmail addresses for user accounts is illegal, according to a German court ruling. The parent company of GMX and Web.de (Ionos) had filed a lawsuit. (www.zdfheute.de)
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[–] 55 points 1 year ago (9 children)

did they change this because i was pretty sure you can create a google account with your normal email and then add gmail on later.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I created by account with my own email, but they forced the addition of a gmail for some service, so my account has two different usernames.

    Worse, if I use the Google account login for a third party service it will use the fucking gmail account for notifications. I only learned this after they sold their domains off to square space and I had to try and hunt down my logins again and discovered that they hadn't been moved to my square space account with the same email but had been moved to a new account they created using my Google account.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, it depends on where you live. In my country, goolag asks for your phone number. You can't use your other email address to create a goolag account.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Its not just google, it's every service now days that requires phone number. Specifically the big ones. For example, I remember gmx and mail.com didn't ask for a phone number, but they do now.

    The "confirm that you are a human with a phone number"

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