Comment by Triv888
5 years ago
Most of Google's "safety" features are somewhat evil in some way. I don't want any of them, but some of them can't be disabled (like the one that can lock you out of your account even if you have the correct password).
5 years ago
Most of Google's "safety" features are somewhat evil in some way. I don't want any of them, but some of them can't be disabled (like the one that can lock you out of your account even if you have the correct password).
Which one is that.
Sometime Google doesn't recognize your device and then your password is not enough... even if you have second-factor authentication disabled. So if you don't have a second form of contact like another phone number or another email for recovery, then you are fucked. Sometime they even ask you for a previous password for recovery, so if you use a password manager that doesn't keep history, you might also be fucked.
Is this only when using MFA. Sometimes, without MFA enabled, if you just change the user-agent header they send an email that they have detected a "new device". What if you just exported all mail each day, maybe this could be automated, then in the event of a lockout at least you have all of the stored mail.
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