Originally Posted by Bladewire

You're aware that big tech has a valuable "profile" for each real person they can verify right? Your profile is like your tech credit report.

They share this profile with partners so you are NOT honeytrapped and considered possibly invalid upon signing up using an unverified Google, FB, etc. account.

When you're verified less stuff is monitored, you are trusted more quickly, your online actions have higher meaning, etc. I'm condensing this but hear what I'm saying if it matters for what you want to accomplish.

If you're unverified doing things of value, they'll force you to verify in the future, but in some rare cases having you unverified suits their purpose (i.e. uploaders)