Mark Edwards at WinITPro recently went incandescent at Google's new policy of verifying AdSense
accounts with a phone call to the registered phone number using an IVR. But isn't that much
more reasonable than mailing a sensitive piece of information on a printed piece of paper?
Since I'm located down in South America I never got such verification call for my AdSense account.
I'm assuming here the call approach applies only to US addresses. Instead, I received last week
a printed PIN code that I had to enter into my AdSense profile as a means of address verification.
The white card was delivered by the postman along with the regular junk.
Just by pure chance, the same week I received PINs from two of my credit cards, mailed by the bank
after my phone request to operate with them at ATMs.
