Google is now self-Verifying Phone Number without user CONSENT

[u/Nanosinx]

WARNING: Google Play Services is quietly "Self-Verifying" and linking your phone number to ALL signed-in accounts without explicit permission.

Just a heads up for anyone who values basic privacy on Android.

Check your inbox for emails from noreply-phone-verification@google.com.

Without asking for my confirmation or giving me an opt-in prompt, Google Play Services performed a silent background "Self-Verification."

It exchanged SIM card identifiers and device metadata with my mobile carrier, grabbed my phone number, and automatically attached it to EVERY Google account logged into my phone.

No prompt. No "Do you want to link this?" button. Just a silent background action followed by a notification email telling me it already happened.

How to kill this setting on Android immediately (for now) but it will self verify even if turned off Go to Settings > Google (or Google Services) > All Services > Phone Number Verification

Find Phone number verification (or Device Phone Number Verification). (Ah, and lovely it automatically appear my phone number even WHEN IT WAS NOT THERE BEFORE!)

TOGGLE IT OFF.

Don't forget to purge your accounts:

Once Google steals/verifies the number, it pushes it to your Google account profiles.

You need to log into myaccount.google.com/personal-info, click on Phone, and manually delete the number from every single account where you don't want it stored.

Modern "self-verification" dark patterns are completely out of hand. Check your settings before Google silently grabs your data too.

NO ANDROID IS SAFE: Happened on my Android 10 Huawei, Android 14 Xiaomi and is now requesting on my emulators too...even my tablet... Beware...

Edit1: Maybe dont work, i sent a mail to data-protection-office@google.com, literally asking ARCO rights and anything i can think about it, for such privacy invasion on the behalf of my and all accounts i have to "care" and so on...maybe this bring pressure

Edit2: u/AppleBites reports this "Google did the same to me when I got a 2nd number from another carrier, due to coverage. Even having GrapheneOS did not prevent them from linking the number to my Google account automatically."

Meaning even Graphene OS+GServices probably is unable to protect with this, a serious oversteeping in this messed thing

[u/SecretaryNo8431]

Ich hab Google Play Dienste längst in der Firewall isoliert und Google Service Framework auch. Mein Handy vermisst diese beiden Mülldienste überhaupt nicht.

[u/Nanosinx → u/SecretaryNo8431]

Wie hast du das erreicht?

[u/SecretaryNo8431 → u/Nanosinx]

Zuerst möglichst viele Anwendungen durch Opensource Apps ersetzen und dann die besagten Googledienste in der Firewall isolieren. Ich habs in BlockAds gemacht. Das ist auf meinem Blackview Shark 9 5g kein Problem gewesen. Keine Fehlermeldungen,alles läuft. Ob das auf anderen Geräten klappt,weiß ich natürlich nicht. Ich mache in kürze eine genauere Erklärung mit ein paar Screenshots.

[u/OptimalMain → u/SecretaryNo8431]

Won’t they just use DNS over HTTPS?
Or are you intercepting them and forcing them to use regular DNS on a local server?

[u/SecretaryNo8431 → u/OptimalMain]

Ich trenne sie einfach von der Verbindung ins Internet. Das ist besser,als sie zu deinstallieren ,denn ich kann alles wieder rückgängig machen,wenn es nötig ist. Diese zwei Dienste sind für die Funktion meines Handy aber unnötig.