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Re:Never Buy A .online Domain by wl on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:10PM (#47161733)
I never expected to need to recover the account because I used a strong password stored in a password manager that I had adequately secured and backed up.
Re:Never Buy A .online Domain by simoncion on Thursday February 26, 2026 @03:30AM (#47163447)
Exactly.

It was pretty sobering when Google demonstrated to me a new and novel way that made them the actual threat to my account security. I thought that by carefully refusing to publish anything with their add-ons (YouTube, Docs, Android Store, etc, etc) that I'd avoid getting swept up in an autoomated account-wide bannination, but, nope. A perfectly ordinary login to the account I'd had for years from the exact same location and IP address I'd used the day before was "suspicious" and required "recovery".