The Russian “ministry” also noted a significant decrease in the number of SMS messages sent by Google to Russian users. Techno 24.

While SMS verification remains available as two-factor authentication for existing Google accounts, this option may stop working for Russians in the future.

By the way, Google had previously banned the registration of new accounts for Russian phone numbers. This happened at the beginning of September, after which the Russians received the message “This number cannot be used for verification.” At the same time, there were no reports of any restrictions from the company itself, then or now.

“War” between Google and Russia

• It is worth noting that Russia is trying to fight against Google and its services. The country’s authorities repeatedly fined Google’s Russian office, which led to Google’s virtual bankruptcy.
• In addition, they are also trying to “slow down” the operation of YouTube in Russia, which involves reducing the speed of the service to a level that makes it impossible to use it, which means actually blocking it. Although the country’s authorities tried to explain this to problems with Google’s own equipment, the company denied such accusations.
• The last step Google took in response was to cancel the ability to monetize videos of Russian creators. The company completely stopped the operation of the AdSense platform by disabling the accounts of Russian users. So they stopped receiving viewing money from abroad.

It is worth noting here that Russian creators have multimillion-dollar channels operating for Western audiences, so the financial impact of such a decision is significant for Russians.