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I also have an old account that despite knowing the correct password AND having access to the recovery email for that account, Google refuses to let me log in and there's no recourse. It's frustrating to say the least.

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I've been through the process of recovering an old account and I can share some tips, feel free to email me if you'd like (address in my profile)

Please consider doing a write up on how you resolved this? There must be thousands of people impacted by this.

I've also had this situation when relocating countries. I had to abandon a 15 year old account (for which I also had a valid working recovery email) with a lot of issues recovering online banking etc. (Had to physically travel to another country to restore multiple services associated with the account).

I'm with fastmail now. I will never again depend on a mail service that I am not paying for.

You need to own the domain in your email adress, then the email provider does not matter that much.

How did you regain access in the end? That's the only worry I have with relying on Google services so much...

I never regained access to it. It's just an old account that I only used for a brief period of time so I don't think there's anything valuable in there, but it still sucks nonetheless.

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