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With which workspace solution did they end up with?
I assume "next leading brand" ;P
Hopefully that means Nextcloud ;)
Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
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Re: Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
#42> Supposedly, using the QR code on the smartphone triggers an SMS sent from your phone to Google in order to verify your phone number. Does anyone have a better source of information than this one forum comment from someone who thinks scanning a QR code is enough to get your phone to send a text message? EDIT: It’s just an SMS URI. It doesn’t automatically send anything, just opens a text message for you to send. Thi…
What happens when your phone can't do that? I use a flip phone. It can't scan QR codes despite having a camera
Re: Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
#43Last time YouTube wanted to verify my phone number it was easier to find a free service to receive SMS than for Google to deliver it to my actual phone. And Google didn't care I "verified" a number assigned to other side of the world.
It's becoming increasingly hard to find a service that lets you see verification messages, and even then google doesn't like a lot of the numbers those services use
Re: Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
#44> Supposedly, using the QR code on the smartphone triggers an SMS sent from your phone to Google in order to verify your phone number. Does anyone have a better source of information than this one forum comment from someone who thinks scanning a QR code is enough to get your phone to send a text message? EDIT: It’s just an SMS URI. It doesn’t automatically send anything, just opens a text message for you to send. Thi…
What happens when your phone can't do that? I use a flip phone. It can't scan QR codes despite having a camera
then google has decided that you no longer should be able to use GMail (for now) and the internet (in the future)
Re: Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://xkcd.com/277/
"It's so easy when you don't know how". I'm not sure if this phrase is in common use at all, or if I just misheard it once and attributed it to mean that when the details of a problem aren't obvious, its easy to conclude the solution is simple. "Why don't they just do ___?"
At the companies I've worked at, I refer to this as the "well, can't you just...?"
Yeah, I can "just" after I "just" do A, and B, and C, and D, and E, and F, and G.
Drives me batty on top of being insulting. "Surely you realize I thought about that weeks ago, and if it were that simple, we wouldn't be having this conversation."
But hey, I get paid every 2 weeks.
Re: Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
What happens when your phone can't do that? I use a flip phone. It can't scan QR codes despite having a camera
then google has decided that you no longer should be able to use GMail (for now) and the internet (in the future)
eh, they gave up on trying to control usenet and haven't touched gopher so I'll just go there
Re: Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
#47Gmail has been evil both for client privacy as they use email scanning for marketing purposes, and for 'spam' filters that reject legitimate emails. The fact that they're introducing QR/SMS/MMS/whatever they want is actually an interesting signal, because it will harm the customer experience, which might result in the growth of responsible paid email services.
> Gmail has been evil
It is good to realize that it has never been "Nice Uncle Google" and always an advertisement moloch offering tools to hook their product. All that trust that was bestowed was never warranted.
Re: Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
#48Any Gmail person can tell me why Gmail is tolerating Gmail phishing emails that use Google's own services (e.g. https://storage.googleapis.com/savelinge/ ... ? More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665414
Spam is getting horrible lately. I get all sorts of new techniques including: - using legitimate sites to bypass filters, like sending you a bill through a legitimate bill-creation site - pretending to be a tracking service for something you supposedly ordered, then over the course of days pretending the package got lost on the way and offering a discount code for the 'purchased' amount, expecting you to use it on th…
I can’t prove it, but it feels like the world recently decided that spamming/scamming is acceptable, so the number of spammers/scammers has increased dramatically.
The number of spam calls, texts, emails, iCloud account unlock requests, etc I’ve received in the last year is insane.
Re: Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
#49> Supposedly, using the QR code on the smartphone triggers an SMS sent from your phone to Google in order to verify your phone number. Does anyone have a better source of information than this one forum comment from someone who thinks scanning a QR code is enough to get your phone to send a text message? EDIT: It’s just an SMS URI. It doesn’t automatically send anything, just opens a text message for you to send. Thi…
What happens when your phone can't do that? I use a flip phone. It can't scan QR codes despite having a camera
Apparently it’s just an SMS URI.
It’s not something specific to a phone. It’s just a convenient method to enter your phone number.
Re: Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
What happens when your phone can't do that? I use a flip phone. It can't scan QR codes despite having a camera
Apparently it’s just an SMS URI. It’s not something specific to a phone. It’s just a convenient method to enter your phone number.
To enter their phone number because you sent an SMS to them.
So if there are any costs for sending this SMS it’s on you.