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PokestarFan10/02/20241 replyview on HN

Google is working hard to make it so you shouldn't be able to easily make new accounts. New accounts basically require a phone number and you can only use one phone number so many times before they won't let you use that phone number any more times. Grandfathered accounts don't have this problem yet so this is why Google is trying to crack down on long-unused accounts.


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LorenPechtel10/02/2024

And, annoyingly, being a little too aggressive about it.

Google apparently decided my wife's gmail account was unused. The mail part was other than some forwarding rules (she lives on WeChat, not email.) She's been consistently logged in with YouTube and Translate, though--and now the only way I can get Translate to work is by logging her out.