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No enhanced security, I travel a lot abroad with different phones and can't handle SMS or some type of authenticator reliably.

I completely get it being flagged, I even wrote ML/DL-based anomaly detector for mobile stuff myself, but it really gets in the way, so I switched my primary account over to ProtonMail.




I hear that. :)

I had the opposite problem not too long ago; was away for a relative's wedding and had my phone die during the trip. Even after replacing the phone, getting back into my Google account on the new phone was a chore, because the phone that died was all my trusted devices (2FA key holder and receiver of phone calls for verification at the same time).

Oops. :-p


> was all my trusted devices (2FA key holder and receiver of phone calls for verification at the same time).

That's not actually two factor authentication anymore. Also that's pretty typical of 'two' factor authentication systems IME.


Yeah, it feels like walking on eggshells these days wrt security... Either paranoid, or locked out.




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