I find it incredibly irritating that they don't let you configure your security options to remove those checks. A strong password by itself is still perfectly adequate.
Absolutely. Still have an inaccessible YouTube account connected to a deleted Yahoo email (for inactivity, without warning, lol). When providing the correct >10-characters-with-numbers pw, it wants to send a confirmation code to that email first. None of that rubbish was in place when that account was created.
I have a Gmail account that was created by my parents several years ago. It had a somewhat unprofessional name so I ended up creating a new account before I went to university, which eventually became my main account.
However, Google won't let me log into the old account without veryfing access to my old phone number, which I no longer have since I moved to different country for uni.
The worst part is that I do know the correct password for my old account (it has been stored in my password manager for years) and I also have access to the recovery email set for that account.
This is an account with years of emails exchanged with my parents that I would love to archive, but I can't and I find that to be highly dissapointing.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 14.4 ms ] threadHowever, Google won't let me log into the old account without veryfing access to my old phone number, which I no longer have since I moved to different country for uni.
The worst part is that I do know the correct password for my old account (it has been stored in my password manager for years) and I also have access to the recovery email set for that account.
This is an account with years of emails exchanged with my parents that I would love to archive, but I can't and I find that to be highly dissapointing.