I can't send mail via smtp.gmail.com over my AT&T connection on my phone. Wifi works fine. I am at a loss. Just wanted to also complain about Google.
this sounds like a port 25 block by AT&T - have you tried 587/465 (smtp submission-only ports)
My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero
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#72Every subdivision of Google needs to be broken up, advertising and search especially. Too much in our economy is at stake.
Why would a smaller company be any more responsive to issues like this? This seems like a technological problem rather than a political one.
Because it's easier for competition to arise for the smaller company when it doesn't have the clout of a behemoth behind it.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My mom forgot her gmail password and no longer had the same mobile number for a reset, the secondary reset option was set to my email but would not send a reset despite this. I’m in a similar position except I know my password. Google decided for whatever reason that my location was too different and now requires that I verify via a phone number I no longer have. I have access to the recovery email and even get ‘su…
As someone who occasionally moves countries, this is horrifying. Did you enable 2FA and still need to authenticate via text? I used to enable 2FA, but got worried about phone loss/damage.
Do they even let you enable non-SMA 2FA anymore? Last I checked the TOTP option was gone.
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#74I have no clue about this topic and this comment isn't representative of my employer whatsoever, but...
Since you've never experienced this with other domains, does the word cheap have to do with it? When I think domains, "cheap" instantly reminds me of those early quasi-legal online pharmacies and if I see it in an email almost certainly it's spam of one sort of another. I could see being problematic in spam filters.
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#76Seems like he has a couple of flag words "cheap and fast" in his URL that others have used in the past as indicators of spam domains, at least I've seen that for email. Even good isn't great to use. And looking at the page naming conventions that carries all the way through. A broad brush penalty to over generalized key words indicative of spam, and shopping site type directories would definitely account for this thi…
Not just this, but think of all the links with the anchor text, “good cheap and fast.” Google would penalize any site with this anchor text repeated too many times.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not true. Google is amazing. But they have issues. 1. I'm sure you google a lot 2. I'm sure you use google products 3. Google is a great company, they pay a lot of taxes and have good values, such as 100% renewable.
'they pay a lot of taxes' Firstly, they are 'minimising' their tax base[0], and second, is not committing crimes an achievement these days? [0] - https://developer-tech.com/news/2019/apr/08/tax-google-dodge... .
Everyone is doing it so investors expect it - not doing so would be a competitive disadvantage. A better and more permanent solution should be changed with legislation, not by asking individual companies to maximize their tax base, since this would also equally apply such a rule to everyone and not just companies under the public microscope.
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#78Good, Cheap and Fast (let's call it GCF) appears to be a search engine. When you visit this domain, you get a search box.
It looks pretty cool, and all but ...
Why would/should Google's search engine send users to another search engine?
What GCF needs to do is become well-known, "like DuckDuckGo, but for shopping". Then people will save a bookmark (like I'm doing now).
EDIT:
Unfortunately, bookmark removed. This site doesn't appear very useful. I typed in numerous search queries, starting with generic categories like "bluetooth speakers" and "baby bib" and whatnot, and it came up with "Your search did not match any documents.". I tried some very specific products found in various online sites. Again, "Your search did not match any documents."
Finally, I got some results by just using "bluetooth". Hooray! Some other single-words are working.
The results appear to just be some product advice, followed by some links to selected products and price information on sites like Amazon.
I see now that there are links to categories below the search UI, but I don't see anything there I would be interested in looking for, and if any other categories exist, I have to guess what they are through the search box.
I tried doing some "site:www.goodcheapandfast.com ..." tagged searches in Google to confirm that the GCF pages are being indexed. They are in the index; just when you remove the site: syntax, they disappear; maybe they show up in the long tail of the search if you dig far enough, who knows.
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#79I’ve had similar experiences with other google products: My mom forgot her gmail password and no longer had the same mobile number for a reset, the secondary reset option was set to my email but would not send a reset despite this. We had a live session via thunderbird but there were no channels of support. Luckily we were able to register her old mobile number to achieve a password reset, thanks to a helpful phone p…
> I have no idea why ipv6 would indicate that I’m not a spammer
It's likely not about ipv6, but instead it's about your ipv4 having bad reputation in the past. Basically you changed your source address to a cleaner one.
Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero
#80I’ve had similar experiences with other google products: My mom forgot her gmail password and no longer had the same mobile number for a reset, the secondary reset option was set to my email but would not send a reset despite this. We had a live session via thunderbird but there were no channels of support. Luckily we were able to register her old mobile number to achieve a password reset, thanks to a helpful phone p…
> My mom forgot her gmail password and no longer had the same mobile number for a reset, the secondary reset option was set to my email but would not send a reset despite this. I’m in a similar position except I know my password. Google decided for whatever reason that my location was too different and now requires that I verify via a phone number I no longer have. I have access to the recovery email and even get ‘su…
This is one reason I will not give out a phone number for the vast majority of services. If that means I can't use something, so be it.
Building proprietary, impossible-to-understand Rube Goldberg mechanisms based on associations between accidental aspects of my life (location:phone number pairs, for instance) is not a security system, it is a design for randomly fucking me over. If your system is designed to fuck me over, I would prefer to use something else, thanks.