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talon8635 2 hours ago

Doesn’t Google make it very hard to create an account tied to nothing (no phone or alt email)?

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armadyl 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you create it on a stock Pixel device the phone requirement gets dropped.

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talon8635 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s undoubtedly tied to the phone with is tied to the owner

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gruez 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People report that it works even on grapheneos with sandboxed google play. My guess there's some fingerprinting going on, not necessarily that they're tying the account to some account id.

	▲	NewJazz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I tried and it didn't work, it kept asking for my phone number.

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armadyl 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well yeah. But if you care about anonymity on that level there are ways around that (i.e. buying in cash and creating the account using public WiFi).

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weezing 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

How is your phone tied to you? You bought it through GOogle store?

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burningChrome an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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kotaKat an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It's the SomethingAwful model: go to the store and find the cheapest Android phone from some prepaid company for :tenbux: then use it to set up your Google account during out-of-box-setup while on the store's free public WiFi (since Google OOBE allows free account creation without a number or existing email), then toss the phone in a drawer afterwards.

"Hope ya got ten bucks!"

(I got a random 5G Moto phone for ~$10 on clearance and it was an absolute shitter of a phone full of garbage packed in malware, but after cleaning and debloating as much as I can, it's at least a nifty toy to poke at Termux or something.)