[tor-talk] Google disable web-access to gmail for Tor-users?

[Joe Btfsplk]

On 4/2/2011 2:33 PM, katmagic wrote:
> Google requires you to be able to receive a text message or phone call to
> use a GMail account over Tor. This is unrelated to Torbutton's cookie handling
> (which was broken but has since been fixed). Personally, I got a friend on IRC
> to let me use his phone for it.
1st I've heard they REQUIRE a phone # to use Gmail over Tor.  Anyone 
else aware this is the only way?
I'd bet, from the Google message about "unusual activity," it was 
because the exit node wasn't in the  same country I used when created acct.

Can you expand a little of Torbutton's cookie handling being fixed?  
Again, I'm using TB 1.3.2a.
What are the criteria for TB to allow a site to set cookies?