Re: Only Apple requires a "valid" address just to download software off the App Store

Tom Elam wrote on Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:59:56 -0500 :

No other common OS system vendor requires you to give up your privacy
just to get apps off the app store so that the device can do stuff.
 
Just Apple.
 
That's a fact.

 
That is not true. Google Services also requires a valid mobile number
for 2FA.

Wrong.

I have plenty of Google accounts and not one of them requires 2FA.
Apple is the only OS vendor who murders privacy with 2FA being required.

Notice there's a reason I say that the Apple trolls know nothing about
anything since you don't know this fact - but you "think" you know it.

Google only required 2FA for about a month or two a couple of years ago and
then stopped that requirement because of the uproar by people who hated it.
 *There are now 3rd-party MUAs to recover from Google May 30th 2022 unilateral loss of privacy*
 <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mobile.android/c/prNMni71S3k/m/Y3yrV5EFBQAJ>

By August of 2022, Google stopped requiring 2FA/2FV/MFV for their accounts.
That's a fact.

What's interesting is the Apple trolls are all on Mount Stupid where they
think they know facts - but in reality - they know nothing about anything.