Google never said their phone support is for login issues and makes it clear you need to login for support, and the op (who is using a throway) said they didn't remember using a mobile number when signing up so it sounds like the problem is partly on them. If you've been a customer for almost a year and suddenly realized you don't have a number you can call for support, then there is no reason to be outraged since they never promised that in the first place before you signed up and you were too careless to look. They do have a help page regarding login issues:
They don't remember, which is probably how they got themselves into this mess, which everyone else uses as an opportunity to share their Google hate and call for regulation.
I have a G Suite account and GCP account that I barely spend, and I've always had an excellent experience with their support as long as they could solve the problem. The only time I grew frustrated had to do with Google Music and their support didn't have any answers or solutions at that time.
> So, whenever Google is mentioned in more tech-savvy communities like those that support Linux and FOSS, its name usually makes people shudder. Even so, it is impossible to deny the work that Google has done on making open-source software a standard today. With massive open source projects like Kubernetes, TensorFlow, Go, and Flutter, many other once-FOSS-allergic companies have realized the importance of the open-source model and have followed in Google’s footsteps, including other tech powerhouses like Facebook, Amazon, and even Microsoft.
Forgot Android and Chromium. Also, people shudder at Canonical too these days.
Also, I don't think kernel contributions using GitHub or GitLab would be a good thing. See SourceHut if you want things done properly:
Android, Chromium and Kubernetes have come a long way. Plus there are a lot of other major open source projects that come out of Google. Way more than Microsoft, Apple and Amazon.
Yes if you compare the code base size and the core components. Microsoft still hasn't open sourced it's main consumer operating system and neither has Apple.
The same could be said for Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, etc. At least Google open sources their operating system, browser and are mostly responsible for Kubernetes. If people are going to have such high expectations of one company why do they not equally apply the judgement.
Because those companies are ignored while everyone jumps aboard the Google hate train, and if anything is going to be done to fix it then those changes need to be applied equally to all companies at the same time. Otherwise it does more harm than good.
The sooner that these cloud companies work to create a common open API the more secure and better off we'll all be. The idea of spending so much time being specialized for a particular cloud provider is stupid, when you've built your tech career not knowing actual technology but just a proprietary overlay that doesn't even resemble anything useful outside of the organization.
