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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

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Post by vedmakk »

onesociety2022 wrote: post #98
Dries007 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bit off topic, but changing your name when getting married is so strange to me. It is not at all common where I live (Belgium), in fact I don't think I personally know a single person who did.

Not only is it strange, it’s obviously very sexist in practice. In majority of the cases, it’s always the woman who changes her last name. The husband gets to keep his. I still find it very strange and shocking that powerful women with successful careers in modern society still keep changing their names after getting married.

I changed my name to my wife's name when we got married. Where I live, everyone can choose if they want to keep their name or change it to either ones. So its a free choice.

AND: Hope gmail will rollout this feature asap, so I can FINALLY adjust my email address too.

Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

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Post by vedmakk »

Dries007 wrote: post #69
9dev wrote: post #50

Oh, finally. I’m one of the first.last@gmail folks, which I assumed would never change when I was 13 years old (hah!). Fast forward a few years, I got married, and am stuck with my old name in the address.

A bit off topic, but changing your name when getting married is so strange to me. It is not at all common where I live (Belgium), in fact I don't think I personally know a single person who did.

I was very happy to take my wife's name when we got married. A free choice I made. And I think there is nothing weird about it.

Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

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Post by kalaksi »

firefax wrote: post #7

I 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…

Whoa, I noticed something similar. I was updating my password or something a few years back and decided to test the backup codes too. They didn't work. I don't know what went wrong but that got me worried a bit.

Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

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Post by RulerOf »

mshroyer wrote: post #134
newswangerd wrote: post #94

As someone who has been stuck with an email address I created when I was 13, this would certainly be a welcome change!

Yeah, I imagine this will help a lot of people who created retrospectively-cringey email addresses in their youth, but kept them over the years because of inertia > After changing, Google details that your original email address will still receive emails at the same inbox as your new one and work for sign-in, and that none of your account access will change.

> people who created retrospectively-cringey email addresses in their youth, but kept them over the years because of inertia

I feel seen in threads like this one.

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Post by cuu508 »

jonway wrote: post #146
xeonmc wrote: post #79

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Or just write down the TOTP seed on paper backups instead of backup codes.

Works for google (should!) but man there are some platforms that don’t expose the Totp code, or let you redisplay it! Sometimes they make you remove the old one before you can make a new one, too.

So don't put it off until it is too late -- if you haven't already, regenerate and copy TOTP seeds to paper now.

When you set up TOTP on a new account, copy the TOTP seed to paper then and there, resist the "I'll do this later".

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Post by cuu508 »

iwontberude wrote: post #149
firefax wrote: post #7

I 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…

You think that sucks, my childhood angelfire is gone.

Try contacting their support. They did help me regain access to my late 90s angelfire account, even though the original email address I had used was long dead.

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Post by iamthejuan »

firefax wrote: post #7

I 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…

This is exactly what happened to me on Dropbox, where even the backup codes did not work.

Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

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Post by ncann »

ashv wrote: post #148
subscribed wrote: post #93

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Another email address is useless. Another phone humber only works if you didn't lose that phone.

Why would another email address be useless?

I had email address X (gmail) that I hadn't logged into for a long time. One day I tried to log in to it. Correct password, but Google, for some reason, simply decided there's something suspicious about my login and blocked it. X had Y as the "recovery email", and I had access to Y, and I indeed received an email from Google sent to Y that it blocked a suspicious login to X. However, THERE WAS NO WAY TO USE Y TO GAIN ACCESS TO X. Google simply did not offer that option for X, and I had no idea why.

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Post by nomilk »

firefax wrote: post #7

I 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…

> seemed like some failure in their systems was causing me to lose access despite having followed proper procedures.

I had the same problem with GitHub's backup codes not working: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35735996

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Post by Flimm »

ashv wrote: post #148
subscribed wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another email address is useless. Another phone humber only works if you didn't lose that phone.

Why would another email address be useless?

Google doesn't allow you to recover a Google account using only your recovery email address. Despite its name, the recovery email address is not used to recover Google accounts AFAICT, it's only used to receive notifications about security-related events.
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