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I agree with this in concept, but it has been a bitter pill to see my site overtaken by scraper/outsourced content that I consider to be pure spam. Google doesn't always get it right (regardless of my own situation).
I'd feel the same. I manage a SEO-driven website too and know the struggle. Sadly, some business practices go out of style. Good luck with this and your future endeavours!
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I tried to setup 2FA, Google would not let me setup an authenticator app without first giving Google a phone number.
It’s phone number -> auth app -> umbikey -> remove phone number. None of my google accounts use my number for 2fa anymore
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What does it being a token have to do with anything? An unencrypted token is just as vulnerable as an unencrypted password.
Tokens have defined scope and expire, so not the same as a password that doesn’t have these limitations.
But if the stream isn't encrypted then it doesn't matter. A robot can easily collect the token and utilize it before the token expires.
Taking a look at your site, it seems quite clear where all your traffic went. You have a pretty great backlink profile compared to other affiliate sites ive seen but the content is incredibly thin. Based on this, me or anyone else who visits the site just sees an advertising site. There are no personal experiences with the products, the products are not related and the UX does not make the user want to continue explo…
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> My mom forgot her gmail password and no longer had the same mobile number for a reset, the secondary reset option was set to my email but would not send a reset despite this. I’m in a similar position except I know my password. Google decided for whatever reason that my location was too different and now requires that I verify via a phone number I no longer have. I have access to the recovery email and even get ‘su…
This is one reason I will not give out a phone number for the vast majority of services. If that means I can't use something, so be it. Building proprietary, impossible-to-understand Rube Goldberg mechanisms based on associations between accidental aspects of my life (location:phone number pairs, for instance) is not a security system, it is a design for randomly fucking me over. If your system is designed to fuck me…
This is what iNUM was supposed to solve. Sadly it didn't take off.
I’ve had similar experiences with other google products: My mom forgot her gmail password and no longer had the same mobile number for a reset, the secondary reset option was set to my email but would not send a reset despite this. We had a live session via thunderbird but there were no channels of support. Luckily we were able to register her old mobile number to achieve a password reset, thanks to a helpful phone p…
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> In their help guide they say you can contact support if you cannot log in at all, but you have to log a support ticket.... which requires me to log in. I've been burned by that logic at several companies. It's really infuriating. I've even had one where they had a phone number to call for support, but the phone number was locked away behind a support login screen.
Uber! My friend dropped her phone in the Uber vehicle about 1.5 years ago, so we phoned Uber support whom insisted that we log into their website to log a support ticket... BUT, in order to log into their site, you have to enter the otp sent via sms.. to the phone that is in the car. Took the support lady a few attempts to understand that we cannot log in. We rand her phone twice, within 10 minutes of realising the p…
You tried calling the phone, and it didn't work. I guess the next step is going to the police.
Now I feel fortunate I still have my service business, none of my 2 or 3 major competitors even use Adwords at all, I tried it for like 2 years, did not see any gain in customers, always paid with prepaid credit cards no more than $200 each, finally Google sent me a message they were no longer accepted prepaids - - I said "See ya later Google". I still get the same amount of business without wasting money on Adwords.
Anyone has to be a fool to give any of these FANG sites a REAL credit card with wide open ability to charge you what they want and screw you. Plus all the stories I read lately about fraudulent clicks on ads and such - - the rest of the world can HAVE all that crap. I am still earning over $100K gross annually from my service business, now mostly word of mouth from my reputation - - old school style.
I used to run a content website many moons ago. No spammy articles, focused onto a single tech topic, a moderate amount of ads (Google), well researched articles. Then one day my organic Google traffic fell by some 80%. If I remember correctly it bounced around very wildly during the following months as Google updated their algorithms. At the time I was very much not happy about it. Now I'm happy it happened before I…
Today's hilarity came from a search for "portable hf antenna reviews" - (a pretty niche topic - Ham Radio related) this brought up so much crap even as the first five (or two!) results. It is no surprise that Google is flexing some muscle in this area and people are ending up as collateral damage.