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

[David Papageorge]

Cool, but how is this an outage?

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> 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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