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It's funny, I have an old Gmail account that I haven't logged in in years. That account had my current account listed as a recovery email. One day I received an

by ncann 3y ago

It's funny, I have an old Gmail account that I haven't logged in in years. That account had my current account listed as a recovery email. One day I received an email to my current account from Google saying that it had blocked a suspicious attempt to log in to that old account. So I tried to log in to that old account to change the password but Google wouldn't let me, just saying something like somethings seemed wrong with your login attempt. There was no recovery option available. So despite having the correct password AND having access to the recovery email, I'm still locked out of that old account today. Maybe I'll give it a try later today though.

LightHugger 3y ago
Seemingly without notifying us, google has turned off recovering accounts using the recovery email. Since a few years back they will only ever except phone numbers for this. It's unbelievably stupid.
- atomicfiredoll 3y ago
  Is this what's going on? I have an account with a maiden name I check now and then. I tried to get into it when they announced the policy change around inactive accounts, but was presented with an error saying I had no recovery information. I swore there was a recovery email and could see the security alerts being forwarded to other accounts, but can't do anything. With so many people centralizing on gmail over the years, this really feels like another blow to the usefulness of email overall. It has me thinking more critically around recovery workflows I've built or assumptions that people will have records of previously sent messages.
- mdekkers 3y ago
  > It's unbelievably stupid. In other words, they now force you to give them your phone number, which is incredibly valuable to them. It’s unbelievably smart on their part.
  - jlokier 3y ago
    It's not smart if you can't given them your phone number because they started requiring your phone number to login before you can give them your phone number.

by ncann 3y ago

LightHugger 3y ago

Seemingly without notifying us, google has turned off recovering accounts using the recovery email. Since a few years back they will only ever except phone numbers for this. It's unbelievably stupid.

atomicfiredoll 3y ago
Is this what's going on? I have an account with a maiden name I check now and then. I tried to get into it when they announced the policy change around inactive accounts, but was presented with an error saying I had no recovery information. I swore there was a recovery email and could see the security alerts being forwarded to other accounts, but can't do anything. With so many people centralizing on gmail over the years, this really feels like another blow to the usefulness of email overall. It has me thinking more critically around recovery workflows I've built or assumptions that people will have records of previously sent messages.
mdekkers 3y ago
> It's unbelievably stupid. In other words, they now force you to give them your phone number, which is incredibly valuable to them. It’s unbelievably smart on their part.
- jlokier 3y ago
  It's not smart if you can't given them your phone number because they started requiring your phone number to login before you can give them your phone number.