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		fulafel on Oct 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can't recover your Google account if you lose ... Aren't recovery codes associated with TOTP authenticator use? In this case it seems phone number was used as the second factor.

proactivesvcs on Oct 5, 2022 [–]

Good point. I have recovery codes saved for my account so assumed they were also generated when using SMS. SMS as 2FA really never should have been.

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