Tell HN: Access to my personal Gmail blocked

Re:Tell HN: Access to my personal Gmail blocked by metadat on Friday September 16, 2022 @05:54PM (#32872481)

That's a bummer, I think we've all learned this lesson the hard way at least once before wising up.

Hindsight is 20/20, obviously would've been an excellent idea to enter that recovery phone or email address field. Why wouldn't you do it? In my experience, Google doesn't care how many email accounts you associate to the same phone number (within some degree of reasonability).

You know this is how it goes when you're dealing with ElGoog. Better luck next time.

Someone could've guessed your password and taken over the account, what would you like (or expect) to happen next?

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Re:Tell HN: Access to my personal Gmail blocked by nytesky on Friday September 16, 2022 @06:28PM (#32872831)

Doesn’t having a recovery phone make you vulnerable to a port out scam, basically invalidating any 2FA?

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Re:Tell HN: Access to my personal Gmail blocked by bigcoffeeguy on Friday September 16, 2022 @06:52PM (#32873047)

If you have Verizon, they have a number lock feature (https://www.verizon.com/support/port-out-faqs/#) that is designed to protect against this very thing. I have it enabled and feel much better about using SMS 2FA/recovery.

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Re:Tell HN: Access to my personal Gmail blocked by nukemandan on Friday September 16, 2022 @08:27PM (#32873689)

This has been bypassed by employees when money is involved. https://www.technadu.com/verizon-number-lock-protection-agai...

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Re:Tell HN: Access to my personal Gmail blocked by Wowfunhappy on Friday September 16, 2022 @07:47PM (#32873482)

> Hindsight is 20/20, obviously would've been an excellent idea to enter that recovery phone or email address field. Why wouldn't you do it?

Because OP has his password! The recovery email is supposed to be for people who forget their password! OP didn't forget it.

What are you supposed to do if Google randomly decides to lock you out of the recovery email too? How many emails is a person expected to have?

Google is basically just punishing people who take steps to avoid tracking on the web.

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Re:Tell HN: Access to my personal Gmail blocked by g_private on Friday September 16, 2022 @06:14PM (#32872689)

I only have this address (I don't have any secondary email), so I never set a recovery email.

My password was relatively strong (and only used for email).

I don't know how I'm going to do it. Possibly I will lose access to some things or have some difficulty migrating everything to a new email address.

All my services (social networks, paypal, and others) are associated with this email.

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