Why can't it just be simple?

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I can't get into my old gmail account. Each time I try by requesting sending a code to my phone number it just comes up with this s**t "That verification method isn't working right now. Please try another method". When I use my current gmail account to recover it, it asks me for stupid things I don't know, like old passwords I have previously used on the account or something, which I don't remember.

I use my old gmail account for some things like Amazon and I really need to read the messages. I really hate all this overprotective security. Why can't it just be f*****g simple?

I am not Japanese, and I dont know anything about their culture. But I heard that a way of the old and of the shinto was to complete and master each task before moving on to the next.

Maybe your account has been stolen. Maybe you’ve changed your number. Just create a new identity and rediscover the parts of the old that you want to.

I definitely have not changed my number, I've had the same number since 2009.

I’ve been trying to get into my hotmail account for 12 years.

Oh well, I'll have to kiss goodbye to that account then. Marvellous innit, you can't even access your own email account. My password was an automated "very strong" password that my phone said I didn't need to remember (and yes, I stupidly didn't write it down) but since upgrading to my new phone a week ago I've been unable to access that email account because it wants my password and I have no idea what the hell it is. I can't even get my email password up on my old phone because it wants me to put in my password to see my password. I mean if I knew what it was then why would I be wanting to see it?
And I can't do the "forgotten your password?" option on the old phone either because it goes round in the same circles as it does with the new phone. I mean, I even have a recovery account, yet that won't even work.

These stupid security measures make your account so safe that even you can't access them. Daft age we live in.

I understand your frustration. Various accounts suddently ramdomly start clamming that my password is not right so I try doing a password reset & sometimes the text or emails do not come in till after the five minute security code has expired. When I am able to reset my password, I try resetting it back to my old password because it's easier to remember but I get a message telling me that my new password can not be the same as my old password. Then I'm wondering if that password was the same WTF did the site keep implying my password was wrong when I entered it & required me to reset it Another problem I have is that sites tell me I need to create strong passwords to avoid hacking & there are lots of requirements for the passwords. Then sometime later I find out that the site was hacked & the hackers could have dowloaded everyone's password. I'm wondering why there were so many requirements to prevent hacking when hackers were able to steal all the passwords at once. It's like sites focus on having users create strong passwords so the users feel a false sense of security & not consider the possibility of the entire site could be hacked.