Title: Long story short: bought a couple of Chromebooks over the years (as they&#x27;re nice multi user machines), created Google accounts on each but never gave a phone number. Now after years of use, Google pops up an &quot;unrecognized device&quot; roadblock AFTER I enter the password to log in, with the message &quot;enter a phone number to get a text message with a verification code&quot;.<p>There is no mention of suspicious activity. The only trigger I can think of is a recent modem reset that changed my Public IP, and my new IP doesn&#x27;t appear to resolve to my old physical location in Google&#x27;s geoip db.<p>Am I crazy or does this seem like an extremely cynical attempt to get more phone numbers? I don&#x27;t even understand how giving them my phone number proves anything as I definitely did not ever give them one previously.<p>Unfortunately burner phones are not available in my country, so that&#x27;s not an option.
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