Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email
I&#x27;m sorry for the pain it will cause you.<p>I had a similar story with my own accounts.<p>It&#x27;s just lost forever, luckily I had many others, and didn&#x27;t associate my whole life to any single account or provider, nor used social sign in, so it was not life altering, just a bit of work.<p>But selfishly, I hope those kind of story get published more and more so that people finally realized that what we told them not to do the for the last 20 years was not just for the sake of it.<p>People don&#x27;t listen to preventive talks. We see that with cyber security, climate change, and so on.<p>They only start to move when they get hurt.<p>I wished people would have listened to us when we advised not to give everything to GAFAM, not  to put everything online, and not everything on one provider. And certainly not to trust them with being on your side.<p>So they wouldn&#x27;t have to get hurt.<p>But this is not how we, as a specie, learn. We need to get hurt.<p>So make sure a lot of people know about this. Not just in the hope to get the account back, but because maybe more people will listen this time.