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…until the user loses access to their Google account with no recourse and you have no secondary way to authenticate them.
by sneak 1y ago
…until the user loses access to their Google account with no recourse and you have no secondary way to authenticate them.
- tomschwiha 1y agoI personally have my personal email as Google account email, so even when I lose my access to google I am still in control of my domain (and email).
- edoceo 1y agoAnd still couldn't sign-in-with-google. On an email linked that way, so no password recovery. Would likely be a new account - with bonus "that address is already in use" problem.
- tomschwiha 1y agoI agree, there may be an additional step necessary if the page doesn't handle this case already, but this way you can still prove (more easily) ownership to the support.
- skybrian 1y agoAlso true if I use my gmail address. I'll confess that for many websites I don't care that much. Depending on a password manager would be better, though. Semi-related anecdote: I lost my Reddit account to a cryptocurrency spammer due to a weak password and had to create another, so I lost my preferred username. Annoying but not a huge deal. (Reddit did freeze the old account but wouldn't give it back.)
- bravesoul2 1y agoNo. You just cant password reset if you lose access to email. You can still log in.
- JambalayaJimbo 1y agoThe email is ultimately the second factor that lets you make important changes to the account in many cases. For example, changing your password. It's more important than the password in nearly every security critical account I have.
- joecool1029 1y agoThis is not always the case. Reddit sometimes locks the account until you verify it or reset the password by email. Happened with my email pointed at a .tk domain and I had to call freenom a bunch to get the domain back.
- reddalo 1y ago>Reddit sometimes locks the account until you verify it or reset the password by email. I still remember when you could create Reddit accounts without an email...
- nojs 1y agoBrace yourself: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202506/reddit-considers-world-for-proof-of-personhood-age-verification-report https://www.biometricupdate.com/202506/reddit-considers-worl...
- immibis 1y agoSince the last few years Reddit has basically just become Facebook 2.0 and it's not even worth using at all. They probably got acquired by private equity or something.
- layer8 1y agoThat’s why you shouldn’t be using a Gmail address, and instead have your own domain for email.