Comment by wl
9 hours ago
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.
9 hours ago
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.
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".