They also do this thing now where they block [1] smaller browsers (even ones using the latest version of chromium) under the guise of security. According to their docs they're fighting MITMs by generally disallowing any browser they can't identify (so the big few). If you're not on a whitelisted browser by Google, you can't log in (effectively, use) any of their properties. This feels very anti-competitive to me. Not…
Google sometimes blocks me from searching using Firefox, saying it’s “suspicious activity” and sending me into captcha hell that always rejects my results after several screens for no reason.
It’s incredibly transparent as to what they’re doing. That Google became the most anti-consumer company out there is pretty disgraceful.
They also do this thing now where they block [1] smaller browsers (even ones using the latest version of chromium) under the guise of security. According to their docs they're fighting MITMs by generally disallowing any browser they can't identify (so the big few). If you're not on a whitelisted browser by Google, you can't log in (effectively, use) any of their properties. This feels very anti-competitive to me. Not…
They also do this thing now where they block [1] smaller browsers (even ones using the latest version of chromium) under the guise of security. According to their docs they're fighting MITMs by generally disallowing any browser they can't identify (so the big few). If you're not on a whitelisted browser by Google, you can't log in (effectively, use) any of their properties. This feels very anti-competitive to me. Not…
Not, Google, but I'm having sort of the same problem with Facebook. My church has a Facebook account that we used to set up our public page years ago. We assigned editors to the page, then promptly never used that account again. Fast forward to this year, and I need to add a new editor, which only the page admin can do. I reset the password on the church's facebook account (it was lost years ago), but when I log in, it says it doesn't recognize my location and it needs me to get codes from a list of trusted contacts (a list that I'm fairly certain we never set up). When any of those trusted contacts go to the page it lists, Facebook tells them they aren't trusted contacts. I have tried to get Facebook to respond to me in every single possible way. I have gone through all of their help pages, talked to their bot until it said it would forward my message to a human that could help, sent emails to every address I could find, reported the page and account on every form I could, hit up Meta on other social media, and even reached out to Oculus support and offered to buy a headset if I needed one for them to be able to help me get access back to the account. The only response I've gotten is from Oculus telling me they can't do anything. That's it. No other responses at all. I swear it would be easier to answer one of the 37 recruiters that have reached out to me, interviewed for a position, gotten hired, and then fixed it myself.
Things I can recommend in your situation, which helped me in the past, in no particular order: * log into other gmail account (with a long history) using Chrome without any addons, log out and then immediately try logging into the primary account (ideally google should ask you if you want to add another account) * log in from the same location. I once spent two years abroad, and could not log in to one of my accounts…
Similar case here. One of the Google accounts I have has three 2FA setups: SMS, TOTP, and Yubikey. One time I tried logging in I didn't have my Yubikey with me. I thought no problem I'll use the TOTP authenticator app. Google told me I can't login even though the code was correct.
There wasn't any way to address that except by actually using the Yubikey to log in.
I'm using a fresh install of Chrome with no addons.
They also do this thing now where they block [1] smaller browsers (even ones using the latest version of chromium) under the guise of security. According to their docs they're fighting MITMs by generally disallowing any browser they can't identify (so the big few). If you're not on a whitelisted browser by Google, you can't log in (effectively, use) any of their properties. This feels very anti-competitive to me. Not…
Had this. It was telling me to try again 'later'. Ok, i did 'try later' every day for three weeks, and they didn't let me in. Using the very same IP address as I used to always access it, no less. Then, I gave up, moved all my services to another email account, and after 2 or 3 months tried logging in, and it suddenly allowed me to log in. Needless to say, I will never again use gmail for critically important things.
> Needless to say, I will never again use gmail for critically important things. That's a hot take. If it was critically important, you'd have 2FA and a recovery phone number associated with it - which would have prevented you from getting stuck in a trust-fail situation to begin with. Use whatever service you want, but your takeaway from this situation is a bit absurd. Edit to add: I'm not saying Google's algorithm…
You didn’t understand the story. It’s google that’s using heuristic voodoo for critical things.
Something can be critically important for a person to access on-demand and not be something they’re especially concerned about an attacker accessing. Two completely unrelated dimensions of access needs.
They are not mutually exclusive. An attacker accessing a service can hinder or even completely stop your ability to access that service (i.e. change your password).
Or do things that trigger the provider to force you to change your password.
See: Apple ID, where failed password attempts (by anyone) causes Apple to force users to change their known password.
Every week my google workspace accounts kick me out on my laptop, and I have to log back in with a password. This never happens on my Android phone with those accounts. And also not on the laptop with my regular gmail account.