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The one you lost?

Google is fairly infamous for making it near impossible to recover lost account access, or appeal bans.

I have an account that I’m never getting back. I made an error, when setting it up, that resulted in me losing the password (I saved the wrong one, in 1Password). It’s been a few years, but I remember trying everything to get it back, and was stymied at every turn.

Eventually, I gave up. The reason I registered the account, was because it was the name of one of my corporations, and I didn’t want fraudsters registering it.

Mission accomplished. Ain’t no one using that account.




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