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No, it depends on where you live. In my country, goolag asks for your phone number. You can't use your other email address to create a goolag account.
Its not just google, it's every service now days that requires phone number. Specifically the big ones. For example, I remember gmx and mail.com didn't ask for a phone number, but they do now.
The "confirm that you are a human with a phone number"
Because I have never received a robocall from a bot using a real phone number...