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I ran into a situation earlier this year where I tried to log in to my Google account in a pinch on someone else's computer and I could not because, even though
by saurik 4y ago
I ran into a situation earlier this year where I tried to log in to my Google account in a pinch on someone else's computer and I could not because, even though I did NOT turn on any fancy 2fa options and had ONLY ever wanted Google to use my phone number or alternative e-mail address (at MOST) for such purpose, they refused to let me log in unless I approved some special 2fa mechanism in the YouTube app I had logged in on a Google Fi Android phone that I only use for testing and had over a thousand miles away from me at my desk. It was ridiculous.
In another, non-Google case, Apple once demanded that I provide the answers to challenge questions for an account I didn't use often even though I had my username and password correct. To me, the challenge questions are something that should only ever be used to verify in the case that I don't know my password, and it took me three days of trying against the rate limit to get enough tries to figure out the spelling of the answer for one of my questions. What made it really ridiculous is that the only reason this account existed was to give me access to developer account that was actively billing my credit card that I couldn't access... at least with Apple there was a customer service representative who was willing to try to figure something out as they agreed that it was ridiculous that I was paying money for something I couldn't even log in to cancel (though she wasn't sure if she could actually do anything...).
- esalman 4y agoRe. Apple, I bought an iPad, took it to another country and gave it to someone. After a few years when they tried to access it, they could not. I contacted support, they wanted to see the purchase receipt before helping to unlock it.
- sdkgjajggaf 4y agoI hate this, but you MUST enable 2fa in the way YOU want, or else google will opt you into "2fa" you never consented to on some app you don't remember installing. Maybe hugely insecure but I enable google authenticator then put that recovery code and key everywhere I can.
- tmoravec 4y agoAfter reading this comment I tried to disable the 2FA with phone apps that I never asked for. Curiously, I'm not even signed in the app - I'm signed in Google Calendar but I get the prompts in Gmail app where I'm signed into work account only. Anyway, it's not possible to configure 2FA in the way we want. The Google prompts configuration says "To turn off Google prompts on a device, sign out of your Google Account on that device." There's no way to enforce the Authenticator. Not even make it default.
- arc-in-space 4y agoI ran into the same fucking thing recently! It asked me to 2FA off of a random android phone I don't use, despite 2FA being disabled. First time I went "welp, time to consider alternatives". For now I have removed every android I could from their logged-in-devices page and hope that suffices.