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Not all accounts seem to have this but I did. I do NOT have two-factor and eventually the "try another way" method offered to take me through the android code generation and it let me back in.
> *"Sign in With Backup Codes"*
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?hl=en&co=...
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This is an unfortunate situation, but calling it a "dumpster fire of rotting clinical waste" is frankly absurd. Google in particular has done more than anyone to acclimate consumers to the usage-patterns of better auth (two-factor in particular). Is everything perfect? Of course not, but things are a lot better than they could be.
Nah, this is a complete farce. You’d think by this point google could offer a simple checkbox in the settings of your gmail account: “Do you want this account to be extra secure and for us to lock someone out of it with any activity deemed suspicious?” And then when you don’t click that box they don’t arbitrarily lock your account. But they don’t. Because they’re a dumpster fire company.
Whilst it might not be of help to OP, I suggest everyone else to do a data export for all your important services every once in a while and save it with your other backups. https://takeout.google.com https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/download-data
I made the jump to Fastmail and I'm very happy with it. Web interface is at least as good as Gmail's. Thunderbird keeps a local copy of my emails, I control the email domain. I can create backups. The second you get back in you gotta get off this platform.
The only thing that I find isn't as good about Fastmail is the spam filtering. I see more spam in my inbox and my spam folder than I did in Gmail, but despite that the trade-offs (particularly less of my data going through and sitting in Google's systems) still feel worth it.
I made the jump to Fastmail and I'm very happy with it. Web interface is at least as good as Gmail's. Thunderbird keeps a local copy of my emails, I control the email domain. I can create backups. The second you get back in you gotta get off this platform.
To make the transition easier you can configure Gmail to automatically forward mails you your FastMail address. They all then appear in the fastmail acc and you don't have to touch Gmail ever again.
I've been locked out of 17 year old gmail account for awhile now because I refuse to sync my phone to it. I only want to login to delete the contents and deactivate the account. It still forwards to my Thunderbird which is how I noticed Google stops dedicating spam protection to un-synced accounts (or something). So, they want me to go away, and I want to go away, but they won't let me go away.
It’s not just you. Their spam filtering has been broken in general for a while now. Not sure what’s going on. I wonder if the volume of spam has just hit some critical threshold where it costs too much to process every incoming message.
Anyway, hopefully the google support outsourced to hn channel can help...
The longer it's been since anyone has logged in, the more confidence Google will have that it's really you trying to log in. In all likelihood you'll be able to get back in within a couple weeks.
This saved me during my big scare about a year ago when I suddenly found myself locked out of an important account with no way to get back in (phone number was old and inaccessible). The password was fine, they just didn't believe it was me for some reason. A few months later it suddenly worked again, and I seized that opportunity to move permanently away from gmail. I was lucky. I do not want my access to my online…