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Sometimes Google gives me grief when I connect to a VPN. They notice unusual activity and I have to fill in captchas. It's time to back up my Google account.
by jjbinx007 6y ago
Sometimes Google gives me grief when I connect to a VPN. They notice unusual activity and I have to fill in captchas.
It's time to back up my Google account.
- jeffbee 6y agoMost people think this is a valuable feature. If you normally access your account from California, but one day you access it from Romania instead, that triggers heightened login security. Because 99.9999999% of the time this is caused by people getting their accounts owned by organized crime syndicates.
- 4cao 6y agoNo VPN in my case but the IP address changes every 24h, and the browser is set to clear all data on exit, so I can't really say if Google's suggestion to try logging in from a "known" browser and location would have changed anything. A good (unofficial) summary of the account recovery process, if anyone in the same situation wants to try their luck: http://gmailaccountrecovery.blogspot.com/ http://gmailaccountrecovery.blogspot.com/