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Proposal to change the post title to: "You can't recover your Google account if you lose your 2FA device, don't set a backup email account, don't save backup c
by runjake 4y ago
Proposal to change the post title to:
"You can't recover your Google account if you lose your 2FA device, don't set a backup email account, don't save backup codes, or anything else Google recommends you do to avoid losing access to your Google account."
Heck, Google even pesters me occasionally upon login to confirm all the above info is still good.
There's a lot of things to criticize Google about, but I don't think this is one of them.
- tmnvix 4y ago> To be clear, I still have access to the email address in question and could certainly retrieve any recovery code they send there. They don't offer that option though. Phone or nothing. My interpretation was that they do have a backup email address registered.
- arbuge 4y agoNo, I don't have a secondary email on this account.
- arbuge 4y agoYou cannot follow any of those recommendations if you can't login to your account to do that, which is what I was trying to do. The email I received today was one of the "pestering" emails you refer to. Cannot be implemented since I'm not signed in anywhere currently and unable to login.
- arbuge 4y agoRegarding the backup email account suggestion specifically, see my other comment in this thread. That's not actually possible apparently for Google accounts set up with non-Google email addresses as the primary email address, for some reason best known only to Google. For those accounts, Google also sets your primary email as the backup email, which doesn't really make sense if you think about it. To cap it all, there is no option to use that email for actually recovering the account, so even calling it a recovery email is deceptive.