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Hit this over XMas. Dad got a new fire stick. Wanted to use the YouTube app. Wanted to sign in to YouTube for channel subscriptions. Had a GMail account he'd no
by dTal 5y ago
Hit this over XMas. Dad got a new fire stick. Wanted to use the YouTube app. Wanted to sign in to YouTube for channel subscriptions. Had a GMail account he'd not used in years. Tried to recover it with the whole send-a-code-to-secondary-email rigmarole. Google went to the trouble of sending a code, but upon successful entry decided that it just wasn't good enough. Maddening. Gmail account gone forever. Can't sign up for a new one because "phone number used too many times". Fuck me I guess, guess we'll have to use one of the unofficial YouTube apps that do client-side subscriptions and incidentally block ads.
- throwaw123x3 5y ago> "phone number used too many times" Reminds me of that time we did a project for google. They couldn't give us accounts which was required to do the job for them, too much hassle even for them internally. We bought a dozen phone numbers and invoiced them instead. (There is some humor in invoicing Google for circumventing a Google security system.) Each phone number is good for a handful of accounts per ~2 years iirc. This is in a country with ID verification for a new phone number (no, it's not russia/iran/china... it is germany). The person behind the counter was not happy when I showed up to a busy post office with a stack of ID verification requests. (I couldn't have gone at a quiet time: they scale employees and I queue for 15-20 minutes every time also for a 20-second package pickup, no matter which day of the week, which time of day, or which city I go in.)
- Kelamir 5y agoI recommend NewPipe for watching YouTube on phone. Best of its kind, free and open-source. https://newpipe.net/ https://newpipe.net/