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> If Google thinks something is suspicious, it will decline your 2FA codes and recovery attempts—it will just tell you that you entered the wrong code. Serious
by AnonC 5y ago
> If Google thinks something is suspicious, it will decline your 2FA codes and recovery attempts—it will just tell you that you entered the wrong code.
Seriously! What! The! Hell!
I too have thought before that having 2FA (and linking a phone number, which I hate to do) would avoid tripping in such situations and that the systems would consider a different situation (like a different IP address/location, a different browser) as reliable enough with 2FA. But this irks me a lot.
I don’t really use Gmail much and have other paid alternatives, but I have some old stuff that may be mildly inconvenient if I were to lose them. Need to download the data and dump these accounts.