Wow. This is different than the normal backup email/cell phone thing in gmail right? I always just click "save" on that without filling anything out and it goes right on through!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 36452782 Indeed, yes this is a different screen. I always cruise by that one too. But this, unfortunately, gives no options but to give your phone number and receive a text, or a call.
You can give them my number if you want.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 37043682 Thanks :)
I refuse to give my number out to any site.
Why all of the sudden are they requiring all this?
Quoting: ClassicalConspiracy Google, acquiring all the most popular sites, and forcing them all together into one base... and identifying anyone who wants to use their service(s) badly enough. Just the NWO coming to the internet... we've seen it heading this way for a long time.
Give them a fake number
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 9566370 . However... I absolutely refuse to go through this step with this account, on principle alone. I'd rather never sign into YouTube again...
And let's face it, it's not like I ever signed in very often anymore anyway...
Everyone on YouTube has seen their views sink like a lead balloon...
There will be an alternative 'YouTube' brought into the spotlight soon... or maybe a single social networking site where all these things are combined (social networking, video uploading, pic hosting).
But I have no use for it... this is exactly why I purchased my own website, VPS, and threw FFMPEG on it so I could upload videos to my own fucking site... and not have to worry about bullshit YouTube censorship.
The last YouTube channel I made was a channel for my kitty... I put up a very adorable video immediately. The next morning the channel had been removed for "multiple copyright infringements" which was a total lie... there was absolutely nothing that could have been copyrighted.
