[Outages-discussion] [outages] YouTube to force 2FA for monetized accounts next month - Gmail

[Nate]

Not an outage 🙄

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 8:09 PM Ross Tajvar <ross at tajvar.io> wrote:

> Cool, but how is this a reply to -discuss?
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 9:36 PM David Papageorge via Outages <
> outages at outages.org> wrote:
>
>> Cool, but how is this an outage?
>>
>> Sent from my mobile device
>>
>> > On Oct 20, 2021, at 17:55, Jay R. Ashworth via Outages <
>> outages at outages.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Or something very close to that.
>> >
>> >
>> https://9to5google.com/2021/08/24/youtube-2-step-verification-requirement
>> >
>> > Directly, that's not necessarily a big thing, but if you have a gmail
>> account
>> > associated with the YT account -- as they forced some years back -- and
>> you've
>> > forgotten about that, devices may not be able to send or receive email
>> through
>> > that account anymore either, and it's not clear whether you can turn
>> 2FA back
>> > off for such accounts, or de-associate them from the YT account.
>> >
>> > I know this will break things as I had a client turn on 2FA for an
>> account a
>> > few months back, and their copier stopped being able to mail scans to
>> people.
>> >
>> > A low-impact problem... unless you have it.  And can't figure out why.
>> >
>> > Replies to -discuss, as usual.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > -- jra
>> >
>> > --
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