1. why don't you have any recovery codes? This topic comes up bi-monthly... (To everyone else reading this, no, you're not immune, go save the backup codes)
2. If it says it's sending a code to a device, that's not SMS, that's Google's own side-channel for trusted, authed devices.
In theory, you should have backup codes and/or the ability to text a number you've confirmed. Maybe you're not seeing the link for "Try Another Way/Method" ?
> If anyone has contacts at google and can tell them, yea, verily, Doreen Michele Traylor is a real person who is real poor and we all know her and please let her keep her phone number and her (my full name) google account and get me out of this fucking nightmare, that would be coolios.
Man, I just don't know what to say here. I really don't want to be mean, but I _really_ don't want someone compromising my HN account and then going "oh yeah, plz remove 2FA from [my Google] account, it's really me for sure". :/ :/
2. If it says it's sending a code to a device, that's not SMS, that's Google's own side-channel for trusted, authed devices.
In theory, you should have backup codes and/or the ability to text a number you've confirmed. Maybe you're not seeing the link for "Try Another Way/Method" ?
> If anyone has contacts at google and can tell them, yea, verily, Doreen Michele Traylor is a real person who is real poor and we all know her and please let her keep her phone number and her (my full name) google account and get me out of this fucking nightmare, that would be coolios.
Man, I just don't know what to say here. I really don't want to be mean, but I _really_ don't want someone compromising my HN account and then going "oh yeah, plz remove 2FA from [my Google] account, it's really me for sure". :/ :/