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The death of Gmail would make a whole lot of companies realize they should stop tying account identity to an email address (rather than something like a usernam
by aezart 4y ago
The death of Gmail would make a whole lot of companies realize they should stop tying account identity to an email address (rather than something like a username), which would be nice.
- vv_ 4y agoMost services like to spam users mailboxes with promotions and marketing material for their company, in addition, handling lost password requests would be quite a bother without the requirement that a user ties an e-mail address to an account.
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- bgro 4y agoThey’d probably either jump straight to requiring a phone number or ssn and try to write it off as “there’s no other way to verify you’re a real person.” We seem to be going this way already.
- hyperbovine 4y agoSSN would be illegal (in California at least) and phone number comes with the exact same set of problems. Despite all the carping about using email as login, I’ve never seen a better solution offered.
- Lutger 4y agoI agree. Honestly I think this should be a government provided service, not a corporate one.
- Gigachad 4y agoNo one wants to have to remember a million usernames. At least your email is ensured to be available for use on every site you sign up on so it’s only one thing to remember.
- NackerHughes 4y ago> At least your email is ensured to be available for use on every site you sign up on Until one day it isn't. And then you're permanently locked out of every single site you use that email to sign up with.
- Gigachad 4y agoI could also be hit by a car, get cancer, have cosmic rays wipe my hard drive, etc. Getting permanently locked out of my email is an event so unlikely it’s not worth thinking about.
- nibbleshifter 4y agoHappened to me recently due to a circular dependency issue between Google and LastPass. Both of which I pay for. Turns out losing both my laptop and my phone simultaneously was enough to lock me out of both forever - LP wanted me to click a link sent to my email to login from a new device, and said email account (GSuite) required a password stored in LastPass.
- pmontra 4y agoHow did you solve the problem?
- nibbleshifter 4y agoAs yet I haven't! I largely gave up after 3 months of trying, and created new accounts for everything. Years of work lost largely due to being stonewalled by Google support at every step. My current best hope for recovery is that the recent lastpass breach data goes public and I can crack my own vault using the passphrase I know for it.
- jklp 4y agoSorry to hear that happened to you. I do remember losing my password for an old domain awhile ago, but I remember it being straight forward and giving me quite a few options to recover it (security questions, backup phone number to send 2FA codes, etc). Maybe double check the "try another way" login options and maybe one of them will help you get back in. Good luck!
- ReptileMan 4y agoThe companies still own the domains. So transferring to something else will be trivial