I know someone who recovered their hacker YoutTube account(Google account) by contacting YouTube support on Twitter.
Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back?
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Re: Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back?
#22I had similar issue - I know the passwords, the recovery email but does not have a phone number associated with it. I can't login. Thankfully, that Google account has no important data. Only thing you can try is to use the same device and browser and this time, use your mobile internet to access it (if not done already). This might have 1% extra chance of success but there's no guarantee. Google's AI (or the engineer…
What email service are you using ? What about google photos replacement ? Thanks
Disroot and Next cloud.
Re: Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back?
#23> Is there a way I can recover my account? I assume you tried contacting Google's online support and got nowhere. Try writing Google a _physical_ letter. Maybe even make it registered mail. In your letter, ask them sternly to make either the account or a dump of its contents available to you. Explain that, since it is of extremely importance for your personal and professional life, they must understand you will use a…
What email service are you using ?
Wondering what people is using these days. Protonmail ? Hey ? Fastmail ?
Re: Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back?
#24>Unfortunately I did not have a phone number associated with this account. My understanding is I would have been able to recover my account, If I had one.
It boggles my mind how people can have their entire life tied to this service and not connect a phone number, especially since google regularly warns you during login that this can happen if you don't add your number. They even ask to confirm every now and then in case your number changed and you forgot to update it. If you're worried about giving them your number for data privacy reasons, you should not have used their service for your whole life's activities anyway.
Re: Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back?
#25I had similar issue - I know the passwords, the recovery email but does not have a phone number associated with it. I can't login. Thankfully, that Google account has no important data. Only thing you can try is to use the same device and browser and this time, use your mobile internet to access it (if not done already). This might have 1% extra chance of success but there's no guarantee. Google's AI (or the engineer…
What email service are you using ? What about google photos replacement ? Thanks
Not parent but:
Email, I'm using the POP3 and SMTP servers of the registrars of my domains. They also have IMAP and a web interface but I'm fine to look at my mail with K9 on my phone, delete the cruft and download the messages I need. You probably want IMAP and web mail.
Photos, I sync to my laptop with Syncthing and then backup as any other file. It means that I can look at all my photos only on my laptop because I don't sync between mobile devices. Occasionally I'd like to show a picture so old that's not even on the microSD card I passed along phones but nobody really care, telling the circumstances is always good enough.
Re: Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back?
#26Not a week goes by without seeing a post like yours. You may simply need to come to terms with the fact that you may not be able to gain access to your account. Lesson learnt: Google is evil, stay away from it.
> Lesson learnt: Google is evil, stay away from it.
I think it would be better to come up with and popularize a phrase similar to "not your keys, not your coins". Maybe something along: "not your server, not your data" or "not your hard-drive, not your data".
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#27Another signal to remove google your life.
It was amazing back in the 00's, but now it just seems toxic. Every service and such.
Apologies I can't provide any assistance to OP, but in the future you can setup one time codes to get back into your google account. They give you a print out of 10 codes which, optimally should last the lifetime of your account unless reset.
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#28If the main concern was not identity theft, I would just say consider it as a blessing and forget about google. What I would do now is concentrate on right now is buy a new comouter and phone, swap the sim card to it, shutdown all other connected devices, change my main password manager password, the login on each service / account I have in my password manager and change the password, email address and credit card n…
dude what the fuck, literally lmao
Re: Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back?
#29>Unfortunately I did not have a phone number associated with this account. My understanding is I would have been able to recover my account, If I had one. It boggles my mind how people can have their entire life tied to this service and not connect a phone number, especially since google regularly warns you during login that this can happen if you don't add your number. They even ask to confirm every now and then in…
At the end of the day, they won't trust that the phone number you provided actually is you anyway.
Re: Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back?
#30>Unfortunately I did not have a phone number associated with this account. My understanding is I would have been able to recover my account, If I had one. It boggles my mind how people can have their entire life tied to this service and not connect a phone number, especially since google regularly warns you during login that this can happen if you don't add your number. They even ask to confirm every now and then in…
It boggles my mind how people can have their digital life under third party computers ONLY. I was a GMail user, since when it was beta/invite only, but I always have had local copy of anything in usable formats...
It might sound rude, but people have to learn a thing: only things you really own are yours, the rest might be there or not, might be good or bad, but it remain something ephemeral, not to be trusted for anything. And that's why we MUST stop connected-devices to fill our life from cars to home doors: we do not really own them and we should.