@AgathaSorceress resetting a google password with no access to anything is a pain and i never wanna do it again
@AgathaSorceress it also includes like 3 days of waiting
@maia @AgathaSorceress@eldritch.cafe Huh, what's their process nowadays? When I recovered my Google account back in 2013 (after cops stole all my stuff) it pretty much instantly gave me access, after answering a pretty big (but answerable) pile of "account content" questions.
@joepie91 @AgathaSorceress there is an artificial wait time now for restoration to prevent account takeover by giving u time to abort it ig
@maia @AgathaSorceress@eldritch.cafe Hmm. Kinda makes sense I guess? Though the questionnaire I recall was pretty robust already, definitely would've been very hard for somebody else to overtake an account with that.
@joepie91 @AgathaSorceress what i forgot to mention yesterday (i wanted to make another reply but forgot until now) is all i needed to reset my account was the yubikey and signing in from a network that had previously been used by someone signed into the account (so my home network), so it makes sense they do some take over prevention because this amount of access is trivial enough if you are after a specific target, but also proof enough if it actually is you
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@joepie91 @AgathaSorceress as far as i know there are now lots of different flows depending on how much information you still have, which is pretty neat i guess
@joepie91 @AgathaSorceress still annoying as hell, but at least accounts are recoverable in some way
