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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
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.
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Officer’s Notes
@officercia
🤦‍♂️ google did it again
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
And even then, I imagine it would be extra annoying to finally speak with a real support agent, explain your name is Vitalik Buterin, and they would be like “yeah, right, and I’m Satoshi”
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Matt Garcia
@mattgarcia.eth
also GMAIL enables 'recover account via phone' without asking — which is risky due to SIM SWAP
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David (d/acc)
@promptrotator.eth
Had the same happen to me. The only option is to speak with a Google employee or ask the new owner of your phone number to help, neither of which are great options.
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gidwell (暇人/acc)
@gidwell
wen farcastermail?
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Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
If you pay for Google One for a month, you can talk to a live human for customer support and they might be able to help
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Joseph Delong
@joseph.eth
Same thing happened to me
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1dolinski
@1dolinski
Interesting, what's the best decentralized social recovery platform at the moment?
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PhiMarHal
@phimarhal
I got burned by this a couple years ago. Brings back memories of getting punished with the whole class when you did nothing wrong.
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Tom 🛡
@tomthedude
I paid for Premium on X, got suspended next day, then got blue tick the day after. Still suspended for no reason, & X support is where stuff goes to die. @farcaster & @base is the way forward.
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MetaEnd🎩
@metaend.eth
is this why we lost satoshi? heh
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Leo Simon
@leo5
You should switch to Skiff 💀
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frdysk.framedl.eth
@frdysk
You need to be sim swapped to get access to that 🤣
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fry
@articuno.eth
SIWE fixes this...right?
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Eclectic Method
@eclecticmethod
oh no! i sent all the best cat pictures to that email. they are lost forever now. I too will back this decentralized social recovery thing too.
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Emre Ekinci
@emr.eth
Same issue with Apple ID
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Batraz 🔵⛓
@batraz.eth
logging in with a seed phrase is much better 100%
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Niles
@niles
This happened to my main email and ever since I been looking for a solution, I no longer live in one country so I just am on free roam internationally and have no set number.
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duggi.eth
@duggi
you can register passkeys on every device, get a couple physical security keys registered too and keep in safe, etc. not perfect but way better than the old options we used to have like authenticator apps with TOTP.
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