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Google dis-respecting one's email login settings (and abruptly eg enabling 2FA) is annoying and I'm thinking about migrating -- at the same time, what they do,
by cutemonster 6y ago
Google dis-respecting one's email login settings (and abruptly eg enabling 2FA) is annoying and I'm thinking about migrating -- at the same time, what they do, makes one's account more secure (from what I've seen) but with a higher risk of locking people out permanently from their own accounts
A good trade-off for Google I guess
- mindslight 6y agoSure, it's technically less secure to have a password and a password reset link, rather than just the password reset link. But you'd think a password reset link would be the thing that would result in extra scrutiny and hoops to jump through (eg captchas, rejecting from suspicious IPs, etc). That it seems to be the preferred login procedure seems to indicate that something is very odd with their security model, likely due to worrying too much about people who reuse their password of "Fluffy123!" across every site.