[JeremyKaplowitz] Looking Back

[stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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[teyrnon@sh.itjust.works]

Google doesn't let you into your account with your security questions even if you have the password., not anymore. No phone, no email. Which makes email less useful as it has for 30 years been an alternate way to contact people when you don't have your phone, it gets lost, stolen, breaks, you lose service.

Fuck you google, never again, Graphene OS first chance.

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@teyrnon

You realize you can turn off 2-step verification in a Google account?

There are some sites/apps where multi-factor authentication is mandatory, but Google isn't one of them.

And yeah, I leave 2-step verification off for this reason. What if I lose my grip on my phone and it falls into a river? Losing my phone is bad enough; losing my Google account would make it even worse!

@Stamets

[teyrnon@sh.itjust.works]

I've been all over the settings and there is no way to turn off this verification, in fact I think it is turned off, they are calling this something other than 2fa.

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@teyrnon

Should be in your Google account settings at “Security & sign-in” → “2-Step Verification” → button at the bottom labeled “Turn off 2-Step Verification”.

…I think. I might be wrong.

[lunadragofelis@void.lgbt]

@argv_minus_one @teyrnon Good to know. I just did that, because (at least for now) my Google account is the bootstrap for all my other accounts and it would already suck enough if my phone permanently died or got lost or stolen.