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Those of us who move around quite often can attest to how frustrating the security of online services has gotten. It can get even worse if you provide a phone
by mekoka 5y ago
Those of us who move around quite often can attest to how frustrating the security of online services has gotten.
It can get even worse if you provide a phone number for "added security" and find yourself in a different country with a different phone. I've witnessed a few fellow travelers getting locked out of accounts because they couldn't access the SMS sent to their home phone number and the app was ignoring the code sent via email. Yahoo, Amazon, Gmail. I've even seen someone unable to use their Airbnb account for this very reason, which is odd considering that the service caters to travelers (that was 6 years ago, so maybe things have changed).
If you travel and change phone numbers often, avoid giving it for security if you can.
- lucb1e 5y agoI know the pain of the internet with borders. Paypal phone support literally told me to close my Dutch account and open a new German account so that I can use paypal in Germany. If you can login to paypal from abroad, that is a bug according to them, you're not supposed to be able to login from abroad (like when on holiday) and need to make a new account instead. (I currently start a VPN into NL every time I need to use paypal; one more reason to avoid them.) In their defense: at least paypal has phone support. Try that with a gmail account.
- vault 5y agoPayPal is just as bad. After I moved country, I forgot to log in into my old PayPal account for months, and I've never been able to log in again, even having the right password, the same phone number, everything.