Google is really testing its customers’ limits — quite literally. In a new experiment, the company is limiting some users to 5GB of Gmail cloud storage, expanding it to 15GB only after users add their phone numbers to their accounts. Google notes that this tweak is intended to bolster user security, as the phone number could be used as a tertiary way to access and secure their account. However, this practice feels a little sketchy, especially for those who don’t want their mobile number linked to their Google accounts.
While my colleague Hadlee Simons wrote about his feelings towards the change, we also wanted to gauge the community’s temperature. Would any of our readers be willing to trade their phone number for more storage? Naturally, we ran a poll across our site, and over 7,100 votes later, the results are as follows.
