{"id":4895,"date":"2024-04-12T04:57:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T04:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2024-04-12T04:57:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T04:57:25","slug":"gfail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2024\/04\/gfail\/","title":{"rendered":"Gfail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was logged in with my Gmail account and needed to submit a review. I didn&#8217;t want to use my account, so I logged out. Turns out, I couldn&#8217;t submit a review without being logged in, so I logged back in. No worries.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/bdb69ba37a36de0fd9eeabb2a3d14ea8.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Denied.<\/p>\n<p>Super weird knowing that my 20-year-old Gmail account is only accessed on a couple devices at home, always the same for 5+ years, and secured with a 25+ character password. It is decently secure. I try again.<\/p>\n<p>Denied.<\/p>\n<p>The super smart folks at Google claim that they don&#8217;t have enough information to know that it&#8217;s me logging in. On the exact same device I was logged into 2 minutes ago? With a password long enough that it&#8217;s extremely unlikely that a hacker is trying to log in? On an account that doesn&#8217;t have suspicious activity at all? On the same IP\/Gateway\/Network? I didn&#8217;t do anything. Flagged.<\/p>\n<p>I had heard about how it&#8217;s <em>impossible<\/em> to get anyone at Google to help with those things, and I&#8217;ve been experiencing that first hand since last night. Holy fucking shit.<\/p>\n<p>Of course they&#8217;re making a lot of money, they don&#8217;t invest in support at all. I can&#8217;t even get a live chat thingy! Every single company out there has those. How on earth Google doesn&#8217;t, is beyond wild.<\/p>\n<p>My Gmail emails are forwarded to another email so I still get them and can respond. But I cannot use my &#8220;Google&#8221; account, aka Gmail account to do anything, because I logged out <em>once<\/em>. And that&#8217;s worth locking me out for Google.<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely unhinged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was logged in with my Gmail account and needed to submit a review. I didn&#8217;t want to use my account, so I logged out. Turns out, I couldn&#8217;t submit a review without being logged in, so I logged back in. No worries. Denied. Super weird knowing that my 20-year-old Gmail account is only accessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4896,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/4896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}