Ask HN: Google just kicked me out of my account, no option to verify

What about paying for Google services? I do worry about my dependency on the GSuite, perhaps being a paid customer is the way to secure yourself a bit. Looks like the lowest paid tier is £15 a year, I should probably pay that!

a domain you own is smart, but what will you do about storage ?

email or storage, I doubt that a paid service will be any better unless you are a big company.

Good plan. I use Fastmail with a personal domain and family account. Highly recommended.

well that's the thing, Google isn't even asking for the verification code anymore. Somehow I'm still logged in on my other device, I'll use that as a sign of luck and migrate all of my data to a new account while I can. Will also try to rely less on Google for instance. Would also need to start receiving mails from my old email address. The worst part though, the moment I logged in with my new account to my old Macbook Pro, it treated it perfectly fine and rather said that my other device (the new Macbook Pro from which I was locked out in the first place) is suspicious or something without any rhyme or reason. I've checked all of my apps, extensions and everything, it's all legit. Guess Google simply sucks since it doesn't even provide customer support in this matter.

I have actually, but for some reason Google kept asking for my phone number on the device from which the problem originated in the first place. I got a spare phone lying around and turned phone verification on from there to be able to login to my other devices. It's simply not safe to be using a Google Account without a mobile device by this logic. I have in turn decided to move away from Google, my Drive is now like 100 mb used cause of GMail which I have now forwarded to iCloud and am also just slowly changing my email everywhere I had signed up to my company mail or my personal iCloud mail. Relying totally on Google was the worst decision ever I suppose.

Backup address adds a "single point of failure".

I added both phone # and backup email to my gmail at some point, now I can't reset the gmail password because I only have access to the phone and incoming gmail messages and not the backup email.

Following your advice was exactly my mistake.

Well that's what I had to do. Got my spare phone while my primary phone was still out for repair.