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[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 66 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Next year:

Sorry, your login looks suspicious. For your security, you've been permanently locked out of your account.

Since you never willingly gave us your address, you cannot submit a request to regain access to your account. Thank you for all the data. You cannot contact us. Have a nice day, dumbfuk

[–] Owlboi@lemm.ee 20 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

not for now, but forever. they'd be in huge trouble with EU regulations should they ever dare to change it

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 33 points 20 hours ago
[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 6 points 15 hours ago

They already force phone numbers in the EU.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee -4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Literally every of these Google "add information xy" boxes has been skippable for years now