I had this happen the other day. Unfortunately the device it was sending
the code to was sitting on my desk at home, not in my hotel room with
me. I just kept telling it to send the code again, until it gave me the
option to choose another option which for me was authenticator app.
David
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On 8/29/2024 2:02 AM, Michael Rathbun via mailop wrote:
On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:51:24 -0700, Brandon Long via mailop
<mailop@mailop.org> wrote:
Typically, the phone number use in cases like this is part of trying to
prevent bulk operations.
All I can personally say is that, when I recently tried to log in to Google to
retrieve some articles I had saved in Google News, I had to dig through the
old hardware pile to find a Galaxy Tab E that I had used years before, to
which Google had sent an unlock code. There was no alternative channel for
the unlock code to be retrieved. My only option was to dig through boxes to
find the Tab E, charge it up to the point where it could attach to local WiFi,
and see that, sure enough, there was a pop-up directing me to use this code
(now expired, due to all the rummaging) to log into my Google account.
Feh. And again I say: FEH!
"Don't be evil", indeed. Missed that one by a mile.
mdr
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