It's driving me fucking crazy and I really don't fucking want any of this. I have found no way of turning this off, all methods either don't work anymore or don't solve this specific issue anymore. The reason it corners you like this is because it's fucking desperate to take your phone number. I don't want to give Google my phone number, but it refuses to let you use their dumb shit otherwise.
How do you turn off all of this "security" fucking bullshit?
Of fucking course I'm not expecting to be respected, I just want a way to turn this particular gigantic annoyance off.
"Just want" whatever the fuck pleases you. As long as you depend on Google you're getting what they want, and no more.
You read my thread before going in, of course you knew it was at the top before posting, it wasn't going to change in the second it took you to type that on a slow board like this. Your reddit instincts just kicked in without thinking.
Anyhow, my point is there could be some way. A few years back I read about a method where they didn't bother you when signing in on a different location if you printed a sheet with codes. That doesn't work anymore.
There's so many free email providers:
mail.ru
microsoft
protonmail (doesn't let you use IMAP)
and tons of others but you just had to pick google right?
I doubt you can. They don't even let you use IMAP without you using Thunderbird so it can pretend to log in as a webbrowser over the HTML, CSS and Javascript login form. They don't like you.
I think that one also bitches at you big time for signing in on a different location. Can you turn it off?
It never bitched on me accessing mail from an IMAP client.
Go to settings and remove your google account
Here's a list.
en.wikipedia.org