Due to my work I travel a lot (and by that I mean that I can be in new city every day). I don't want to give google my phone number or my other email, so my account is not tied to anything, the only factor is the password.
Turns out if you try to log in from new device from new location (I guess your account is tied to IP from which it was created), just password alone isn't enough to log in. And there's no alternative way to prove that account actually belongs to me.
I understand that most services try to provide you with good security, but I hate it when everything is overcomplicated and everyone tells me what to do. No, I don't want to give you my phone number. Yes, I know I won't be able to recover my password, I don't need that. Yes, I actually want my password to be this long. No, I don't want you to block login attempts from new locations. Believe it or not, people do travel and want to log in from more than 1 city. It's none of your business if I want to give my password to my friend and let him login, just stop this please. Let me choose whatever password I want without any backup emails, phone numbers, and let everyone who knows the password log in. Is it too much to ask?
Why is it even allowed to let users create accounts without providing a phone number, but then not letting those same users to log in because their accounts are not tied to any phone number? How does it make any sense?
Turns out if you try to log in from new device from new location (I guess your account is tied to IP from which it was created), just password alone isn't enough to log in. And there's no alternative way to prove that account actually belongs to me.
I understand that most services try to provide you with good security, but I hate it when everything is overcomplicated and everyone tells me what to do. No, I don't want to give you my phone number. Yes, I know I won't be able to recover my password, I don't need that. Yes, I actually want my password to be this long. No, I don't want you to block login attempts from new locations. Believe it or not, people do travel and want to log in from more than 1 city. It's none of your business if I want to give my password to my friend and let him login, just stop this please. Let me choose whatever password I want without any backup emails, phone numbers, and let everyone who knows the password log in. Is it too much to ask?
Why is it even allowed to let users create accounts without providing a phone number, but then not letting those same users to log in because their accounts are not tied to any phone number? How does it make any sense?