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6 votes
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Google-free /e/ OS is now selling preloaded phones in the US, starting at $380
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Arizona advances bill forcing Apple and Google to allow Fortnite-style alternative payment options
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Stadia developers can't fix the bugs in their own game because Google fired them
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Help with Google accounts authentication on iOS/iPadOS
Edit: This was resolved by @tomf (cf. this comment). Google’s account authentication appears to broken for me for some reason. I have several devices and several Google accounts accumulated over...
Edit:
This was resolved by @tomf (cf. this comment).
Google’s account authentication appears to broken for me for some reason.
I have several devices and several Google accounts accumulated over the years.
Accounts:
- Work Google account (this was set up by IT staff at the company where I work as they are a paying enterprise Google services customer)
- Undergraduate University account (this was set up when I attended undergrad, where the University is a paying Google services customer)
- Graduate University account (this was set up when I attended for grad school, where the University is a paying Google services customer)
- Personal Google account (this was set up a long time ago, it’s just a non-paid, consumer Google account)
Under iOS and iPad OS, Google apparently asks you to download the official Google app in order to sign in and “trust” devices, so that they can send you prompts to acknowledge when you sign in on other devices. There is also the Google Authenticator app that lets you do traditional 2FA.
Further background, I got an iPhone 12 Pro circa October 2020. I gave my old iPhone handset to my dad (after signing out of everything and resetting it according to Apple’s instructions). Ever since, I’ve been having issues with logging into my Google accounts from the new iPhone, my iPad, and my Mac (provided by work). I’m actually afraid to log out of my work Google account on my work Mac, because I’m afraid I won’t be able to log in again, and that would prevent me from being able to get work done.
For example, let me walk through the steps I would normally take to log in to my Undergraduate University Google account on my iPad:
- Open the Google app
- Tap user icon in top right corner
- From the modal menu, tap the downward chevron (circled in red)
- Tap “Add another account” (circled in red)
- Tap “Continue” on the confirmation widget when prompted
- Enter the Gmail address for the account in the provided “Email or phone” input box and tap “Next”
- At this point, I wait for the progress indicator (the blue bar with the red arrow pointing to it) to indefinitely traverse from left to right over and over again and I cannot progress further.
Virtually the same steps can be reproduced from my iPhone by going to accounts.google.com from any browser (I’ve tried Safari and Chrome).
The same sort of authentication redirect from accounts.google.com happens when trying to add my associated Gmail accounts to my iOS devices from the Settings > Mail > Accounts > Add Account, and similarly stalls at the same point.
I’ve tried logging out of my accounts from my personal Mac where I can still log in from google.com, and also tried going into the security settings for the accounts and disabling, then re-enabling 2FA (I can receive the text message with the code to associate my iPhone as a second factor authenticator, so Google knows my phone number).
Google’s support documents don’t provide any guidance on this situation where the accounts.google.com authentication hangs, and there seems to be no way to contact a human being at Google to provide technical support. I’ve searched their help portal/forums, and found nothing similar to my issue. They point me down a tree that ends here, which is not useful to me.
If Google’s services don’t work for you, it seems to be your problem, not theirs. I get that I’m not paying for their services, so it is totally unreasonable for me to expect any sort of technical support from Google. But, at the same time, it seems very strange that I am alone in my use case of simply trying to log into my accounts that have worked for years in the past without issue.
Anyone have advice on next steps?
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Google submits plans to build 7,000 homes in North Bayshore, the largest project in city's history
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Slay the Spire for Android is out
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I have $15 burning a hole in my Google Play balance. Help me figure out what to spend it on.
Here's a list of Paid Games & Apps that I already have bought. Utils Tasker KLWP Sleep as Android Nova Prime One or two Icon packs for Nova Games Desert Golfing Death Road To Canada 2 Meteorfall...
Here's a list of Paid Games & Apps that I already have bought.
Utils
- Tasker
- KLWP
- Sleep as Android
- Nova Prime
- One or two Icon packs for Nova
Games
- Desert Golfing
- Death Road To Canada 2
- Meteorfall
- Mindustry
- Mini Metro
- Ordia
- Prune
- Reigns
- Reigns: Her Majesty
- RowRow
- Teslagrad
- UnCiv
- .projekt
- Sword and Sworcery
I'm looking for something worthwhile to spend it on. Is there a lesser known utility app that you use all the time? What about an indie game not getting the praise it deserves? Tell me about it!
17 votes -
Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus
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Google has suspended the Element Matrix client from the Play Store due to abusive content (It's back)
@Element: Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://t.co/aaZ9qXz69W but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.
31 votes -
Google to pull API keys from unofficial builds of Chromium, including those for Linux packages
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Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
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Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. lawsuit: Can APIs be copyrighted?
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Google threatens to pull search engine in Australia
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New side-channel attack can recover encryption keys from hardware security keys
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Google employees form union
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The strange world of YouTube's corporate propaganda
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Google Maps' moat is evaporating
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Google acquires Neverware, a company that turns old PCs into Chromebooks
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Google's Blob Opera
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Gmail suffers another outage
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Privacy is power
8 votes -
MediaPipe Holistic — Simultaneous face, hand and pose prediction, on device
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Chrome team tests "private prefetch proxy"
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We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says.
19 votes -
Google announces Pixel 5 and Pixel 4A 5G phones, new Chromecast, and Nest Audio smart speaker
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The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed
16 votes -
Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
18 votes -
Google Desktop (2004) - demo and retrospective
6 votes -
Google using Core Web Vitals in their search rankings will be a positive change, but developers should be careful not to fixate solely on those three metrics
6 votes -
YouTube can now place ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
26 votes -
YouTube Terms of Service updated with the “right to monetize”
26 votes -
Google should rotate their email DKIM keys periodically and publish past secret keys, in order to remove the unintended capability for authenticating years-old emails
16 votes -
Google Photos will no longer have unlimited free storage after June 1
40 votes -
Google apologises to Thierry Breton over plan to target EU commissioner
6 votes -
Stadia offering a free Premiere Edition bundle for US YouTube Premium members
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Reddit worries it’s going to be crushed in the fight against Big Tech
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RIP Google Play Music, 2011–2020 - A look back at the nine-year life of Google's music service
24 votes -
Google sued by US Department of Justice in antitrust case over search dominance
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PAC-MAN Mega Tunnel Battle demo - Google Stadia
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A legislative path to an interoperable internet
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Helping people spot the spoofs: A URL experiment
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Everything you need to know about Android’s Project Mainline
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US House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple enjoy ‘monopoly power’ and recommend big changes
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The new Chromecast with Google TV won’t officially support Stadia at launch
5 votes -
Web history - Chapter 4: Search
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Apple’s reckoning has come - Breakdown of the EPIC v. Apple (and Google) lawsuits
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Breaking up is hard to do: Chrome Web Browser separates from Chrome OS
11 votes -
Designers and technologists look to the natural world to envision more resilient futures
4 votes -
App Store review guidelines on streaming games
12 votes