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

[Robert Webb]

I see it as a "pre" outage notification for when Google turns this on and
all the space cadet influencers can no longer log into their accounts, it
will be reported as a widespread outage of YouTube.. :-)

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 9:37 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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