Forum Overview :: Lively: Google Creates Something Terrible :: Many such cases.

[quote name="blackwater"]There's tons of stories on the internet about how people got locked out of their account because Google won't stop using some old phone number that they no longer control for 2 factor auth. And of course you can't turn off this shitty feature, because Google knows best. I remember once when I was trying to set up some Google thing on my new phone, and Google wanted me to open up YouTube on my old phone in order to log in. No other option was available. Fortunately I still had the old phone, but what if I didn't? Then I guess I'd just be another statistic. Stuff like this is why I use Fastmail for my main email account. The only Google thing I voluntarily use is Google Authenticator, just because all the other choices seem equally bad.[/quote]