Facebook and Google hassling me trying to log in after moving to a new home despite a good long password, and thus being on a different network in a different city helped me rethink my dependence on both of those services. Google presented me with a questionnaire that was just weird, with question like “what month of what year did you open your account?” (how would I know, the account had existed since 2005?) and then following up with a question what city I was in when I opened the account (again, how would I know?). With Facebook, I noticed there was absolutely no way to log in from another country without already having installed the app, it didn’t even help to add my phone number to the account.
@federalreverse
Google never pestered me although occasionally, I have to confirm my e-mail address for account recovery.
My problems with Facebook started when I changed my Internet provider and grew when I changed my e-mail address. No longer being able to sign in to my facebook account is no big loss - only used it to keep in touch with a handful of friends abroad, anyways. The trouble is that of some I don’t have up-to-date e-mail addresses.
Facebook and Google hassling me trying to log in after moving to a new home despite a good long password, and thus being on a different network in a different city helped me rethink my dependence on both of those services. Google presented me with a questionnaire that was just weird, with question like “what month of what year did you open your account?” (how would I know, the account had existed since 2005?) and then following up with a question what city I was in when I opened the account (again, how would I know?). With Facebook, I noticed there was absolutely no way to log in from another country without already having installed the app, it didn’t even help to add my phone number to the account.
@federalreverse
Google never pestered me although occasionally, I have to confirm my e-mail address for account recovery.
My problems with Facebook started when I changed my Internet provider and grew when I changed my e-mail address. No longer being able to sign in to my facebook account is no big loss - only used it to keep in touch with a handful of friends abroad, anyways. The trouble is that of some I don’t have up-to-date e-mail addresses.