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Enforcing MFA or registering with phone numbers wasn't required on email accounts back in the day.
by poglet 2y ago
Enforcing MFA or registering with phone numbers wasn't required on email accounts back in the day.
- TMWNN 2y agoIrrelevant. Gengar obviously registered a phone number at some point. It's one thing to ask for help, but another for him to be outraged over something that was and in his control.
- LightHugger 2y agoNo, you don't understand. Associating a phone number with google didn't used to be a MFA/verification decision, back when the web was more sane. Now, google considers it the most vital form of authentication. So it's completely possible to have added a phone number back when it wasn't used as a security tool, and then google arbitrarily decides to make it a security tool without their consent. That is not the user's fault or in their control.
- weikju 2y ago> That is not the user's fault or in their control. What about the part about forgetting which number it is? Maybe I'm just biased, having had the same number for the last 15 years? I know I had a few numbers when I was living in other countries and those are still written somewhere but of course no longer accessible or under my control. Still though.... well I'm on both sides of this lol
- Muromec 2y agoI used to have the same number for 10 years, but then I moved to a different country, so now some of my 2FA is tied to that old number and changing it requires physical travel to regulated institution.
- TMWNN 2y ago>So it's completely possible to have added a phone number back when it wasn't used as a security tool, and then google arbitrarily decides to make it a security tool without their consent. I had not considered that; thank you.
- Gengar 2y agoI made this account 14 years ago when I was a teenager. I didn't even know my YouTube was tied to this Hotmail Google Account until the past week or that it even existed.