No...you're not alone. I'm very wary about these signs. As I said in the first reply, I wonder just how close we, who will not identify ourselves, are to foregoing internet usage altogether. Thanks for replying!
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.
Thanks for replying! I've used your method to search and get the URL as you describe. I'll probably use that method in the future a great deal more. I just don't log in. Why should I? Why should I identify myself? What right does Google have to demand identification?
Tbh, I wonder how close we are, for people like me, abandoning the internet altogether. These identification logistics are completely unnecessary and proceeding far too swiftly stamped with authoritarianism.
Ah, it is not me alone. I had this kind of $hit some days ago, too, after trying to backup my blog - at Google Blogger!
No...you're not alone. I'm very wary about these signs. As I said in the first reply, I wonder just how close we, who will not identify ourselves, are to foregoing internet usage altogether. Thanks for replying!
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
Yikes!! Very unsettling. Thanks for the reply.
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.
Thanks for replying! I've used your method to search and get the URL as you describe. I'll probably use that method in the future a great deal more. I just don't log in. Why should I? Why should I identify myself? What right does Google have to demand identification?
Tbh, I wonder how close we are, for people like me, abandoning the internet altogether. These identification logistics are completely unnecessary and proceeding far too swiftly stamped with authoritarianism.
Thanks again for the reply.