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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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[โ€“] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Just make the account for the one-off situation, store it in keepass and never give them anything more.

The cold method. You get what you ask for, nothing more, like we're all dead end employees and it's just another ask.

[โ€“] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Good luck signing up without giving a working phone number...

Also, "just sign up for a google account" is a very weird take for a privacy community?