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Google lets you set a backup email for account recovery.

I lost my original Reddit account because I never gave them my email address and it was hacked. (Using a throwaway password set back when I didn't care about Reddit.) I contacted support and they shut it down, but without some other way of knowing it belonged to me, wouldn't give me my account back.




My comment was directed more to using “Sign in with Apple” for accounts “you care about”. None of the accounts I care about, use third party logins.




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