Need Your Help
Honeybee has a question.
I have started being interrupted and refused entry to blogs and videos more and more often unless I log into Google for some posts here on Substack. I’m cutting the notice off because my old gmail address is written. Here’s what the top looks like.
Underneath the “Verify it’s you” is an old gmail address which hasn’t been used in years. On the lower right-hand of the notice is a button called “Next.” That’s it. If you hit the “Next” button, they want your password.
I encountered this notice from a Sage O’Quay post entitled “Ritualistic Symbolism.”
When I hit “Read more,” the Google notice comes up on the screen.
Have other people encountered more of these notices to “identify yourself,” or since I logged off of YT and don’t allow AI feed anymore, am I getting these notices because Google isn’t tracking me?
Does anyone have an answer? Or thought?
I ask because this verification request is occurring more and more, and I would like any information people can pass on.
I would have assumed that Google is so omnipresent—as is Theil’s web surveillance or Altman’s AI presence—that they would track everyone regardless.
I don’t log in. I don’t want to identify myself for anyone. It’s none of their business and doesn’t feel right.
What do you think?
This extra sign in to google, which you describe, is something which I too have encountered maybe 3 or 4 times. About 2 of those instances have also been with links provided by Sage of Quay's Substack dispatch/archive (which has a lot of interesting links as you likely already seem to know).
Like you, I object to additional sign-in requirements, thinking to myself "WHY is this extra sign-in needed"?
As some say: "Do Not Comply."
Instead of complying, I do a work-around: I do a goolag search using a quote from the partial article. Then the goolag search returns the same link I desire, but without me having to sign in to goolag. Granted it is more work on my part. But I feel it is worth it not to have to sign into goolag when I'm already signed into Substack.
Thanks for noticing this oddity/phenomenon. I noticed it too.
For awhile I had to get a code to verify who I was when logging on to aol mail. It went on for a couple of months and since then has stopped