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1. I don’t want every device I login with Google to automatically become a 2FA device. There are plenty of scenarios where this reduces account security. 2. Th
by p49k 6y ago
1. I don’t want every device I login with Google to automatically become a 2FA device. There are plenty of scenarios where this reduces account security.
2. They send these non-optional push notifications as part of the account recovery process as well. Once someone was relentlessly trying to get into my gmail account (not maliciously, I think they probably had a similar address and got confused) and I was deluged with these notifications for hours with no way to make them stop.
- mindslight 6y ago3. They then go on to disable your actual recovery options that they've deemed "less secure". I recently tried to sign on to my grandfathered Gapps account to reset its activity timeout (Google demands I perform the account recovery process for every login). This time, Google decided I couldn't authenticate with my longstanding recovery email, instead demanding that I use some long cleared browser/tablet session (lol, such surveillance culture assumptions). I was eventually able to contact what appeared to be a real live human in GSuite support that took on my case even though it was a free account (after going a few rounds of them referring me to gmail account support, and gmail support bot referring me back to them). So believe it or not, it is possible to contact a human at Google. Of course after I got the grandfathered Gapps account back, I was trying to figure out what it's actually good for, especially now that they've restricted adding domain names. The only things I could find are if I wanted to use gmail on my personal domain (no thanks), or if I want my published Google identity to include my own domain name (shrug). So back into storage it goes, this time with an explicit "2FA" tablet.