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    Word of the day is password. If you have a Google Account (including gmail) make sure that your account recovery is set to an email that you can access. From your phone preferably. Mine was set to an email address from 25 years ago that no longer exists. It took more than a week to get back in and the nerds were actually surprised that we got it back. Be smarter...

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    AOL baby.
    Gettin old is for pussies! AND MY NEW TRUE people say like Capt. Tom >>>>>>>>>/
    "Wow, often imitated but never duplicated. No one can do it like the master. My hat is off to you DRDUCK!"

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    Google is the spawn of the devil. GMail account trash never gets emptied unless you manually did it, no matter how you set the settings.
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    Dealing with that shit now. I’m about to give up.

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    I think you can affiliate a phone number also.

    I have an email address that ‘s only purpose is to be a backup to other accts, passwords etc and I never use it for anything else.


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    When I signed up for email years ago I did the exact same email address with google and yahoo and they back up each other. And before you ask they have different passwords

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    Also, turn on multi factor authentication. It's a bit more of a hassle, but realize that when someone has access to your email account, they can reset any other account password you have.

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    All of that^^ too.

    When you can't get into Google and you used a gmail account to sign up to a website, you can't get into any of your bill paying sites, healthcare, scducks, nada on any new device...

    This probably doesn't apply to anyone under 40. None of us expected Gmail to last any longer than the dozens before them we used. We'd to burn through them while laughing at 2thDoc and his shitty AOL that was going to be gone "soon"...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Woodiewacker82 View Post
    Dealing with that shit now. I’m about to give up.
    I learned about it years ago when I went into an old account and found years of trash still sitting there.
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    Or wait until that DNS has an old email account and you need 2 factor authentication from an email that existed…fun stuff!

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