They absolutely do not, but this is the bullshit they choose to hide behind.

Sorry, it was the Google Pay verification not play store. I did it a few weeks ago, might have misread it but pretty sure that's what they wanted.

I believe there are even actual Google employees that read these forums. And barring them, I believe there are even tech executives responsible for these policies that read this forum.

Yes. Taking a photo with a separate device is reasonable evidence you're not breaking secure boot et al.

If I understand correctly.

It's as if the last 30 years of technical evolution never happened and we are back at faxing signed forms and for extra security and applying triple rot-13 to guarantee no unauthorized access.

Yeah the big tech companies want to destroy the ecosystem of opportunity they benefited from, in order to protect their power. If it means a world with more needless bullshit for everyone, so be it

that can't be true because nothing would stop them from taking a screencap and then photoshopping it over a different picture

Or just displaying whatever graphic they want full screen on a phone and taking a photo of that.