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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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CHRIS DOLINSKI
@1dolinski
Interesting, what's the best decentralized social recovery platform at the moment?
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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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Jharmony
@eltio
Great point V. Maybe they should just do away with recovery options and provide every account its own Ethereum address and use that to authenticate. Or something online these lines.
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