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Just fyi, Google lists sites you’ve used to “sign in with Google” in your account setting page. Apple and GitHub have this as well.
by pjot 2y ago
Just fyi, Google lists sites you’ve used to “sign in with Google” in your account setting page. Apple and GitHub have this as well.
- dotancohen 2y agoThank you, I should review that.
- throwaway48476 2y agoYou should assume Google, GitHub, and Apple are hostile and try to limit your blast radius. If you have an account problem they have no customer service to help you.
- hamburglar 2y agoYes, this is exactly why I won’t use these federated identity features of platforms like this. I have a reasonable amount of trust that they are mostly secure, but I have zero trust that they will be helpful if I ever have account troubles. What I don’t need is to have Google (etc) auth problems cascade down to every other account I own.
- dotancohen 2y agoVery well stated, concisely. Thank you.
- vantassell 2y agoWhat's the alternative? What do you use for your base "recovery account" email?
- hamburglar 2y agoMy own domain’s email, which can easily be forwarded wherever I want.
- qingcharles 2y agoI can't get into my Google account that's almost 20 years old because I only have the username, password, recovery email and have all the email forwarded to me, but I no longer have the phone number and they silently enabled 2FA SMS at some point.
- layla5alive 2y ago+1
- quacksilver 2y agoI wonder if you can phone the phone number, explain the situation and offer to venmo/paypal the new assignee money for the 2FA code You could try every 3 - 5 years or so as it gets reassigned again
- qingcharles 2y agoI tried this before, but I haven't tried for a couple of years -- you're right, it might have got reassigned -- I will try again!