Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Yahoo email is driving me crazy these past couple of weeks. Every time I try to sign on, it says there has been "suspicious activity". Makes me get a code from a "recovery email", which is also a Yahoo account. So I go to get the recovery code, and THAT account says "suspicious activity", so it needs to send a code to the different email. Now, when I log out of one email, they all get logged out! Are they trying to force us to buy their Premium service at $5 per month? I have used these free accounts for YEARS for genealogy research and online purchases, and have no idea of how to retrieve my data if I get permanently locked out. Any ideas of how to resolve this?
Thanks to everyone for all your helpful suggestions. I will try some of these.
Get protonmail and vpn. Getting a paid plan several years ago was something that definitely helped eliminate such problems.
At least you still get yours. I haven't been able to access my account for the last week and a half. Husband cleared out our history and ever since we lost our Yahoo email. I also have to sign into GAW everyday now. Husband tried changing password to email but that didn't work so he had to contact AT&T and they said they will get back with him in a few days. That's now been a week ago. So I can't check anything that I can't access. Some weird stuff is going on.
I recommend NOT using a "free" email address. It's not really free. [They] make money from you via adverts or using your data.
Do you happen to have :
My bank was rejecting transfers in the mobile app because I had a vpn profile from an app going 24/7 and I wasn’t aware of it.
You’ll probably see really annoying behavior like being asked to solve puzzles for every other google search if that’s what it is.
The fact you get this error on both accounts makes me think that’s what it is. Try a desktop computer or something that has no apps. Or go try it from a friends house or computer. My home ISP is “range banned” from 4channel because of some idiot gore posting on a board I don’t even visit. You never know.
I don’t have a yahoo address but I have an old aol address and they’re the same company. When I get the prompt about secondary verification methods I have the ability to change phone numbers and backup emails as long as ONE of them works. I don’t know if that’s true on the “yahoo” email side , or if you’re screwed if you only have one on file. (Add one if you can get in!)
Worst case scenario, yahoo/aol let you recreate your inbox after a year of inactivity. It USED TO let “just anyone” steal your email handle. Now it only lets you reclaim it. I had to do that one time for the same reason- no access to backup methods. I was locked out for an entire year but did save a 25 year old address by just rescuing it after 12 months