Timeline for What is Google's "match the number" verification trying to achieve?
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| Jul 3, 2024 at 14:59 | comment | added | Eliezer Berlin | @yankee It seems like the "Are you trying to sign in" is a lower-security prompt, good enough for some things, but the "Choose the correct number" is Google's equivalent of "Hey, you're doing something suspicious like using a new device, here's a 'captcha' of sorts." | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 5:25 | comment | added | yankee | @vidarlo: First I get the normal prompt "are you trying to sign in" with a simple yes/no button, then after that I get another prompt (the one shown in my question). | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 15:20 | comment | added | vidarlo | What two prompts? | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 13:35 | comment | added | yankee | Makes somehow sense... On the other hand... Why two prompts? Why is it not already the first prompt that does the number game? | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 13:34 | vote | accept | yankee | ||
| Sep 21, 2021 at 11:02 | comment | added | user163495 | People blindly confirming security-critical prompts is a much bigger issue than people realize. | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 6:18 | history | answered | vidarlo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |