I was surprised when I attempted to sign back up for youtube premium how the idiots at gmail expect a telephone number ... "to ensure that it's really you".
The f*cktards at yahoo have a similar slant with both thinking you become their property if you want their services.
Needless to say, I have opted to do without youtube premium, gmail, or yahoo mail because I decline to be owned by some over stepping web concern that the world would do just as well without.
In the immortal words of James Baldwin ... "I am not your negro".
All too often the stupid overstep their authority with others. Some of these imposed upon individuals simply take it because they don't recognize alternatives.
However, in the final disposition it becomes abundantly clear just how deep contempt for a stupid irrelevant idiot may flow.
Sometimes the situation becomes terminal and fatal.
Other times it is simply endured until such time as an opening is determined whereby the oppressed may strike. This is often after an extended period of others walking on them.
Rest assured, like James Baldwin, there are those of us who don't take such action lying down and the uppence will certainly come at the earliest opportunity.
Walking on people is not ultimately good for friendships, careers, or service one wishes to render.
Maya Angelou would simply address the situation in poetry. Familiars of James Baldwin might burn down your house.