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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by macspoofing on Friday October 07, 2022 @09:47AM (#33121234)
>Maybe the solution should be to have some basic free state-paid email provider for those people. They are not forced to use Gmail specifically (albeit the number of non-sucking and free email providers is probably close to zero).

You don't need to use Gmail. There are a lot of good free mail providers.

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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by fknorangesite on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:03AM (#33121478)
And what happens if I've already been using that gmail address and then become homeless?

I guess too bad! Should have thought of my future homelessness when I was signing up for an email service a decade ago!

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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by ravel-bar-foo on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:22AM (#33121739)
Gmail allows users to generate 10 one-time use 2FA codes at a time. Even if you are not going to become homeless, you should generate these and write them down somewhere secure. You never know if your phone battery will suddenly die.
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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by macspoofing on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:07AM (#33121537)
OK ... who are you arguing with?

OP stated "Maybe the solution should be to have some basic free state-paid email provider for those people."

I replied that there are a lot of good free email providers already.

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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by lazyasciiart on Friday October 07, 2022 @06:57PM (#33127961)
You, when you said “they don’t have to use Gmail”.
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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by WithinReason on Friday October 07, 2022 @12:50PM (#33123847)
Then you change your password to a strong one and turn off 2FA
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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by xani_ on Friday October 07, 2022 @06:37PM (#33127713)
Yea till they add 2FA too...
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