Stupid Google - Cell phone required to sign up for gmail
Posted by kevin Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:12:53 GMT
You need a mobile phone to sign up for Gmail! What better way to alienate the non-techie world from their service. Is it for geeks only? Do non geeks not click on ads? For a company that doesn’t seem to try to make money, they’re sure being stingy here.
They say on their site that it’s to help prevent spammers, but that just doesn’t make sense to me. Rules like this just hurt the everyday interested-in-google joe, spammers always have ways of getting around things like this, and care enough to bother to…
Kevin, if you want I can give you a gmail account.. If you want one just email jack2005@gmail.com asking for one.