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I seem to have an old yahoo email that I had set up 2fa about 8 years ago. Recently it logged me out abruptly and wont let me back in. That number is with someo
by 2Gkashmiri 3y ago
I seem to have an old yahoo email that I had set up 2fa about 8 years ago. Recently it logged me out abruptly and wont let me back in. That number is with someone else and they are fearing otp hijacking and have blocked me.
I have a considerable number of accounts liked to that so I am kinda in the soup. Urrrgh.
Is there no standardized way to solve these problems ?
I can give details about the email, recovery number, aliases, settings, last emails I remember
Has no one faced these problems ?
- beeboobaa3 3y agoThe only way to solve it is to own your own domain and to make sure that you always pay for it. The catch is that you have to do this from the start. I'm hopeful that governments will eventually realize how impactful this is, and mandate email provides to implement forwarding services after an account is closed and they have verified your identity, possibly via government ID.
- Beijinger 3y agoThis is true. But let's face it. I don't know of any self hosted email that is as good as gmail. Maybe fastmail?
- qingcharles 3y agoI've used Fastmail for about 20 years now. It is awesome. Gmail is just a backup for me.
- beeboobaa3 3y agoThat's why I use gmail with my own domain. If they ever fuck me, I can point my MX records at a new provider. I do have to pay them for the privilege of using my own domain, but at least that way I'm not the product.
- qingcharles 3y agoThere's no solution I've found yet, and I've expended some serious energy in trying to solve it. I've thought about taking a tent down to Goog HQ and just setting up there and waiting until someone hears me out.
- 2Gkashmiri 3y agoheck, i live on the other side of the globe (haa, take that flat earthers /s) so i am stuck.