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Re:Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right pas... by BiteCode_dev on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:19AM (#32863118)
I never used facebook for this reason and advised people not to. Now that you are locked in, there is not good solution. It's like smoking and getting cancer, there is no magic to solve the problem and a lot of pain. The best is to not start.

For gmail, have several addresses, with redirections to each others, use imap, don't use social sign it.

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Re:Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right pas... by bmitc on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:23AM (#32863144)
Well, I never used Facebook for any login nor did I ever give them my personal phone number or email because I never had any reason to. I deactivated the account a couple years ago, which doesn't delete it. It would just be nice if they let me recover it, but they don't want that as they'd rather force me to create a new account to get their hooks in.

I also never use social sign in for anything other than using my GitHub account for certain things.

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