Wait, I have to set up burner accounts all the time for Red Team engagements and you can usually get a google account with SMS verification only. Are you sure you’re doing it correctly? are you doing it from Tor or a VPN or an internet café?
Why would your country matter in the process for an internet account if you can use an IP from virtually anywhere?
All these tiny details matter for your OpSec, and every choice also affects how hard you trigger abuse prevention mechanisms from service providers.
Details aside, yes it is getting harder and its insane that you need actual professional skills to maintain privacy, where it should be the default.
Educate yourself and your loved ones on surveillance self-defense: https://ssd.eff.org/
Also, lmao at expecting privacy from anything Google.
what a bullshit article, is this supposed to be journalism? just making shit up?
lmao you’re all lost
it started from Epic Fail Guy on 4chan about 20 years ago, who became kind of the first rageface meme around the time anonymous grew out from the chans into IRL decentralised trolling “ops” like Project Chanology. EFG became the anon OP mascot, and the V mask was a way to signal who knew the meme IRL.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/epic-fail-guy
before it was EFG it was the green anon guy who represented the real anons
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/green-anon-old-anonymous