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Google doesn't let you into your account with your security questions even if you have the password., not anymore. No phone, no email. Which makes email less useful as it has for 30 years been an alternate way to contact people when you don't have your phone, it gets lost, stolen, breaks, you lose service.
Fuck you google, never again, Graphene OS first chance.
Security questions are well known as one of the least secure forms of authentication
It's not about keeping your account secure it's about grabbing commercially valuable personal information they can profit from. If I want to use a phone verification it should be my choice. Never again, fuck all public corporation email sites.
Oh so THAT'S why Gmail has been nagging me for years to give them my phone number to use as a means of backup ID in case I forget my password. I refuse.
They took no for an answer? Huh. After I logged onto email with my smartphone they forced me to, when I needed to get into the account for work, that was 10 years back. My other corporate email forced a phone number long before then, even before I had a smartphone, aol.
They lock me out on the regular if I log in and force me to verify with phone, especially if I haven't logged on in a while, making them worthless to me now that I found a trustworthy email provider.
Interesting. Here's what it looks like when they give me that warning:
I click "dismiss" every time.
But how could anyone else in the world know what my high school mascot was?
@glibg10b @teyrnon It all begins with you giving your secrets away...
@teyrnon
You realize you can turn off 2-step verification in a Google account?
There are some sites/apps where multi-factor authentication is mandatory, but Google isn't one of them.
And yeah, I leave 2-step verification off for this reason. What if I lose my grip on my phone and it falls into a river? Losing my phone is bad enough; losing my Google account would make it even worse!
@Stamets
I've been all over the settings and there is no way to turn off this verification, in fact I think it is turned off, they are calling this something other than 2fa.
@teyrnon
Should be in your Google account settings at “Security & sign-in” → “2-Step Verification” → button at the bottom labeled “Turn off 2-Step Verification”.
…I think. I might be wrong.