Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
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Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
#2This is so useful. a Gmail account is so much more than just an email account at this point. my first gmail account was made when anonymity and cool email was more of trend than your actual name - so i based upon my favorite book in 2006. 20 years later the account is tied to my oft used primary google voice number so lingers even with obscure and hard to spell email.
i could gave moved my google voice number, but it seems like a convoluted process and have had my number since about Grand Central acquisition.
Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
#3That would have been nice to have during transition. Creating a new account and updating 3rd parties was a huge pain and never got close to 100% completion.
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#4Could this be a sign that Google is starting to think again?
For an organisation that often does deeply intelligent things, they spend such a lot of time treating their users unnecessarily poorly because obvious implications seem not to occur to them.
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#5Boss move that I learned under great difficulty: a new temporary gmail alias for every jobsearch.
Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
#6Boss move that I learned under great difficulty: a new temporary gmail alias for every jobsearch.
iCloud Hide My Email is pretty good for this.
Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
#7I wish they'd let me recover my original -- I lost my TOTP generator, and the codes I'd written down in a paper notebook were rejected. I even hunted down the electronic copy in case there was a transcription error -- seemed like some failure in their systems was causing me to lose access despite having followed proper procedures.
Lost a decade and a half of correspondence dating back to my teenage years. I had imported my phone number I'd had since I was 16 into voice, and it doubled as my Signal number. I even had a Gsuite subscription so I could use their (admittedly decently) UI to power my firstname @ lastname dot com email address.
I will never use their services again, I was really digusted by this failure.
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#8Boss move that I learned under great difficulty: a new temporary gmail alias for every jobsearch.
myjobapplicationhasbeendenied-1582-timesalready@gmail.com will certainly end well.
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#9Boss move that I learned under great difficulty: a new temporary gmail alias for every jobsearch.
Hm interesting, do you want to tell why this helps out a lot perhaps?
Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
#10I wish they'd let me recover my original -- I lost my TOTP generator, and the codes I'd written down in a paper notebook were rejected. I even hunted down the electronic copy in case there was a transcription error -- seemed like some failure in their systems was causing me to lose access despite having followed proper procedures. Lost a decade and a half of correspondence dating back to my teenage years. I had impor…
Yikes. This post is an unsettling reminder that gmail is a single point of failure in my personal and financial security.