Tried to log in to an old gmail account. Remembered my password perfectly. But it asked for a confirmation code from an old phone number I no longer have (something it never did before). No alternative recovery options.

This is why I keep shilling decentralized social recovery.

I once got into a sisyphean temporal loop hellscape bc I had google's authenticator app for 2fa but it kept asking me to use the authenticator app to log into the authenticator app to log in to the email.. 

So yes, decentralized social recovery for the w

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Yeah, never use an app/service from the same service, which requires you to log in, as the backup for your primary account/s.