Google account

“The main reason they do this is to control abusive use of Google accounts.”

“can't login despite having everything they can possibly want”

“Google "knows" you are the same person and will ban all accounts associated with you if you do something they don't like.”

“most people use iCloud or their Google account to store their passkeys”

“Would be nice if Google would lay your recovery options out for you instead of having to hammer the "Try another way" link repeatedly”

“If you haven't given them that info, you just get locked out.”

“One reason to strongly prefer Apple over Google is that (as I understand it) you can still walk into a store with ID and recover your online identity.”

“powerful and effective account takeover protection even 15 years ago”

“Nowadays you can't even create an account in desktop browser without first having to scan a qr code from a mobile device first.”

“that's a huge amount of false positives that Google refuses to care enough about to make a change in their automated account process”

“no human, no longer appeal process where a human eventually gets around to things, just...get your data and get out.”

“Until one day your Google account gets locked with an automatically generated message that you violated an unspecified rule.”

“Google provides excellent features to prevent this from happening”

“someone's child had been interacting with Gemini inappropriately resulting in Google nuking the entire families Google accounts”

“I trust Google to keep my account secure more than I trust some random website”

“I didn’t want a hugely important centralized google account to be banned and cause friction to various aspects of my life.”

“One password to remember. And google syncs everything incl. password, even payments.”

“The delay is quite a bother but it's surely better than account takeover.”

“Google also spreads bans to accounts it deems related, so your personal Google account is likely to be deleted at the same time as your GCP account.”

“I lost a Google account I'd created for a relative because it hadn't been used in awhile and it was tied to a mobile number I no longer had.”

“Google, VK and Telegram are usually ok to use from different location”

“If it gets as far as government-mandated Google ID in my country, I think it's completely rational to kill oneself rather than live like cattle.”

“normal people with no tech experience can accidentally get banned from the only email account they ever had since 2005”

“By shrugging it off as "not great", you're also dooming every citizen to have to comply with whatever whimsical terms of service Google and Apple have.”

“permanently lose access to your Google account for very trivial issues and Google doesn't offer any form of recovery”

“There is in practice no known way around it for now, and even less so one for regular people, to use this on a device without a Google account”

“It's completely crooked that the average person is forced to maintain good standing with a single particular NASDAQ corporation to participate in society.”

“As more and more people essentially lock themselves in with these identity brokers tho I imagine it has a very stifling effect on speech”

“You can literally log into your Google account on first boot and everything is done for you, automatically.”

“people's entire Google accounts are getting banned without apparently violating any terms without the ability to talk to someone or appeal”

“Not crazy, it is just convenient.”

“they abused the recovery email addresses to force 2FA on people and ended up locking some people out of their accounts”

“Google deciding to willy nilly unilaterally ban my 20+ year old primary Google account is probably my greatest internet fear, given how famously awful their support is.”

“Prepare for a subsequent login to result in a 'security check' that asks for more personal details to confirm your account, or you'll be locked out.”

“It accepted the backup code and my correct password and then wanted to verify more stuff, which there was nothing, and just said "Sorry, we can't give you access to your account right now"”

“Google has a pretty robust recovery process.”

“Any bit of that can trigger an automated ban for your account you can't recover from unless you know a Googler personally”

“They did help me regain access to my late 90s angelfire account”

“There is no meaningful way to exist in society today without an Apple or Google account, and that's actually insane.”

“I experienced Google's recently and it was very robust.”