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Googler, opinions are my own. I don't work on these systems at all. My general understanding is that Google wants to prevent account takeovers, as it happens f
by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. I don't work on these systems at all.
My general understanding is that Google wants to prevent account takeovers, as it happens far too often. They flag accounts for various heuristics, even if you know the login (as it could be someone that stole your credentials). This normally should just trigger 2FA for that login. If that doesn't work, you likely need to go through the account recovery flow:
https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery
- donmcronald 5y agoGoogle won’t allow account creation from a low reputation IP without a phone number AFAIK, so a person that can’t afford a phone or Internet that’s trying to set up an email account in a library or Internet cafe will, for all intents and purposes, be denied service for being poor. I hope they appoint the fruit ninja as head of the DoJ so he can slice Google into a thousand pieces :-)