On 2020-01-23 11:17 a.m., Cal Frye via mailop wrote:
Once a gentleman on the west coast used my gmail address as his iTunes
account email. Not sure what was in his head, but he insisted that would
work just fine, and wouldn't fix it (for a couple of weeks). So I
changed his iTunes password and locked his phone. Problem got resolved
very quickly after that.
On an almost related tangent, I wish I could figure out how to deal with
Google/Youtube. I had not logged into Youtube in a long while (using
this email address). I moved, changed phone numbers, changed computers.
I went to log into Youtube, and Google says my device is unknown, and
wants to send a confirming text to a telephone number I no longer have.
The email confirmation methods all work, and validate my account. Yet
Google persists in requiring a confirmation of a no-longer owned phone
number.
As remediation, Google suggests that I might create a new account. Of
what value is that, when all the content I uploaded is in my already
existing account?
Is that a remnant of their 'tracking' or is that a plausible mechanism
of protection?
There doesn't appear to be any alternate mechanism for accessing that
account.
Cal Frye
John Levine via mailop wrote on 1/22/20 11:31 PM:
In article
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you write:
This type of thing is depressingly common for addresses that are common
names and such at the major providers. ...
No kidding. You would not believe (well, you, Brandom sure would) how
many people with names similar to mine believe that my address
john.lev...@gmail.com is their address. I get all sorts of rather
personal stuff, offers of work for a psychiatrist in Boston, wedding
invitations and tax documents for a druggist in Paris, car repair
appointments for a guy in Phoenix.
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