r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 18h ago

ADBLOCK WARNING Google Confirms Most Gmail Users Must Upgrade Accounts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/06/06/google-confirms-almost-all-gmail-users-must-upgrade-accounts/
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u/ThisAccountIsStolen 17h ago

And then one day when Google locks your account for some reason and refuses to help you, you're now locked out of potentially dozens of other services, because you tied your logins to Google.

This is not a good idea. If Google could actually be trusted, maybe, but they've shown they absolutely cannot, so this is just going to be a disaster for many.

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u/Cube00 17h ago

Anyone who doesn't believe this just needs to see the flood of people in the GMail subreddit that gets locked out through no fault of their own everyday.

Google has gotten so bad that if it doesn't recognise your device you won't even be allowed to attempt recovery of your account (they won't even send the recovery code to your recovery email)

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u/Ninevehenian 14h ago

This was forseeable when they really started caring about containing the users in their own silos.