It’s been some years that I am not able to log in to my Google account, because I stopped using it for a very long time any Google product, and now even providing my password, they say they can not know if it is me or now…
They send me to this support page which seems like I have lost my account with all the data and stuff I had from when I was younger…
I don’t think this is normal or ethic to do (I know Google has been never ethic), but this makes me so angry because I never wanted to lose all that data…
Do they basically know every people networks? And if you don’t let them know… you lose access to Google? … 😠
Two-factor authentication is required. In most cases you can use a TOTP authenticator app. This is the most privacy-friendly way to do 2FA to my knowledge, as it requires no information at all to be shared by you.
Of course, it’s not unknown for Google to randomly lock accounts, but there’s not really much you can do about that anyway.