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When is the last time you tried? I have created a gmail account couple of weeks back without providing phone number and recovery email.
I did it. Then they banned it. Having my phone number or any other hard identifier is none of Googles business.
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I've several children, and can no longer make Google accounts for their Chromebooks. All the phone numbers I have and control can no longer be used to register further accounts. What happens to users that buy a new Android cell phone who's number has been burned by Google?
Ironically you could create google voice numbers as a workaround
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I work at Google (I don't work on this stuff though, so I'm basically just another random commenter.) We do send an email when you log in from a new device. What would you do if you got an email about failed attempts to login / reset password?
> We do send an email when you log in from a new device. Which is useless, because whoever got access can just delete it or change your password.
even if enabled, if it was set to send the code as sms it would go to ... the phone :-\
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I think the main issue is that google doesn't accept certain senders anymore. As a generic thread about running a mailserver/mail service pops up here often. That means users are shoveled into about one of 4 "acceptable" providers which have control of the entire market. They demand, full name and usually gender, mobile, alternative email and more. So you get pushed into their information pipeline to stop "spam".
Yep, I wrote one not too long ago: http://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made-... I've been meaning to write a follow up after I met some MailChip devs at a conference. They told me at MailChip they have to slowly spin up new servers, sending e-mail through them slowly so Google registers their new SMTP IPs. The other thing they told me: MailChip owns a /A, and can therefore separately out their serv…
Our admin runs about 10% of the outgoing mail through our DR site to keep google et al trained to accept emails from those IPs.
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> This is why last weekend I moved to FastMail. I've filed two support tickets since, and both were responded to in an hour or two. Can absolutely confirm that. However, there's place for both Gmail and FastMail. Just know what you pay and what you're entitled to get for that price.
How is search in FastMail? And mobile clients?
Also nothing as good on mobile. But fastmail search has been okay, I'm not too handicapped.
> I'm curious [...] why Google doesn’t temporarily disable accounts so impacted until a human reviews activity. Because Google doesn't have humans reviewing anything unless there's a direct link to marginal revenue/cost avoidance attached to that interaction that can be priced in. Their business model is to achieve scale through automation and machine learning; which means not doing things that would require manual i…
>they've got a less-than-stellar reputation for support of paying customers I've actually had surprisingly good support from the $150/month plan for their cloud products. They get back to me quickly and give good advice (with custom code samples when needed).
Have had multiple issues with Google Apps and GCloud over the years and very promptly received phone calls from support (that I didn't expect). I live in Fiji, and have a tiny small business account (~$30/m)
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Put your recovery codes on an offline SD card somewhere safe in your house. I keep mine in a literal safe.
SD cards don't last forever. I've had 3 different cards seemingly randomly corrupt in different devices on me. I don't trust them to hold anything important for long.
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Yeah, I procrastinated on this for years. What I did was: - Created an email address at my own domain and forwarded it to Gmail. - For the last year or so, started using it as my email address and changing accounts to use it as it came up. - Signed up with FastMail and set up my domain's MX records to point to it. - Still checking Gmail for stragglers to change over to my new address. - Eventually will set Gmail addr…
Eventually will set Gmail addresses to forward, but didn't want to rush that so I remember to just make stuff not go to Gmail. When I did this (from @gmail to @mydoman on google apps), I set up a filter to star/label anything forwarded from the old address, so I'd see an update was needed at the sending service/person. Perhaps the same could be done with FastMail.