yeah it was great! it came out of nowhere, no warning or announcements, no consent requested or opt-in offered.
I added an exception to my cookie and data clearing extension for the portal which, naturally, decides at random times to invalidate the session data, so I have to do the 2FA challenge anyway.
it’s not that serious.
yeah, it is. this never happened before and now I literally can’t change anything on my account to break out of this verification loop. it always worked in the past, always. and it hardly ever came up unless changing CC info or something sensitive. now I’m on stock, fresh installed official Android 17 and nothing is working, not even the alternate methods they offer to verify work. either an error or just… nothing. this is a fucking joke. quick search on reddit confirms others dealing with this exact scenario starting around 9 months ago.
it’s cool that this is all entertaining for you though, glad to hear it.
thanks for sharing! have wanted to watch a few of these for awhile, specifically the police bodycam phenomenon by Lindsay Ellis
former right-wing MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair talked about this on Matt Bernstein’s podcast episode earlier this year, “I wanted to be a victim so bad” she openly admits at one point. sounds familiar, doesn’t it? one of the thousand things the reactionaries constantly project onto other groups in their culture war.
Amerikkkan right-wingers really are terrified of everything, scared of their own shadows, and have that childish persecution complex shared with the bigoted “”““Christians””“” which they form a perfect overlapping Venn circle with.
there’s a release day review video and the reviewer noted this too, details are spot on for the era! there’s a good focus on the things you mentioned around 11m 35s and you can see close-ups of the telephones around 13m 04s.
it’s my view that failure to punish shitheads is a result of mods and staff being part of said shitheads on their personal time (see also: slavecatchers peace officers police at protests)
yeah I’m with you on the rationale these companies use to force 2FA on everyone. I understand lots of internet users are sloppy and uneducated about the risks of easy and shared passwords and it has basically always been like that. I’d like to gtfo Google for good but this is not the moment for that (can’t delete the account anyway while it’s soft locked like this). and my current problem, I fear, is either never going to get fixed or will be at the mercy of whatever LLM bot Google has put in charge of support tickets.