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Re:Google introduces mandatory 2-Step Verification for Googl... by gregschlom on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:27PM (#29097737)
I've been through the process of recovering an old account and I can share some tips, feel free to email me if you'd like (address in my profile)
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Re:Google introduces mandatory 2-Step Verification for Googl... by DoingIsLearning on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:48PM (#29098047)
Please consider doing a write up on how you resolved this? There must be thousands of people impacted by this.

I've also had this situation when relocating countries. I had to abandon a 15 year old account (for which I also had a valid working recovery email) with a lot of issues recovering online banking etc. (Had to physically travel to another country to restore multiple services associated with the account).

I'm with fastmail now. I will never again depend on a mail service that I am not paying for.

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Re:Google introduces mandatory 2-Step Verification for Googl... by ygram on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @04:46PM (#29100049)
You need to own the domain in your email adress, then the email provider does not matter that much.
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