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Re: Less secure apps and your Google Account

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Probably a stupid question, but, I've been using Thunderbird to d/l my gmail for ten years with POP3, leaving nothing on the server. I don't store a password on my device, I remember it and enter it. I don't use 2FA, because I consider simjacking a risk; my personal email server is my backup address if I get locked out of gmail.

I suppose this means that no part of this strategy viz-a-viz gmail, Thunderbird and POP3 is going to work for me anymore..? The good news, I guess, is I won't lose any mail. The bad news is, gmail users have recently started to get email from my private server to their spam, occasionally, even though my IP's nowhere near a blacklist and hasn't been for years; thus, being able to send gmail-to-gmail has been helpful sometimes.

Re: Less secure apps and your Google Account

#272
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are missing key benefit: when Google locks you out of your account, you don't lose access to significant part of your digital life (your email, all these sign with google ect). Google is using law of algorithm, not a rule of law. Trying to get to a person is nearly impossible.

> when Google locks you out of your account Is lock-out on Google a thing? I mean, does it happen often other than, when, your account has been maliciously hacked? I didn't know that.

There is a large number of threads here on HN about it.
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