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Have you actually tried disabling 2FA? Because I just did. I followed the steps above then signed in to Google from a clean browser profile with password only.
by jonas21 4y ago
Have you actually tried disabling 2FA? Because I just did. I followed the steps above then signed in to Google from a clean browser profile with password only. No problem. Then I connected to a VPN in a different country and signed in from another clean profile. Again, no problem.
If you have 2FA enabled, then yes, of course it will ask you for the second factor if you're doing something unusual.
But with 2FA disabled, logging in with just a password works fine.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoI have no idea what part of Google's fingerprinting panopticon decided it was okay to let you in from a clean profile, but I can promise you that in the past, I have been locked out. Yes, 2FA was turned off. And there are lots of other reports of this happening around the web, and even here on HN, so I'm not unique.
- aetch 4y agoYes, I’ve tried turning it off and on multiple times and it still makes me do 2FA.