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I got several emails from some uptime monitors I setup due to failing checks on my website and funnily enough I cannot log into any of them.

BetterStack, InStatus and HetrixTools seemingly all use Cloudflare on their dashboards, which means I can't login but I keep getting "your website/API is down" emails.

Update: I also can't login to UptimeRobot and Pulsetic. Now, I am getting seriously concerned about the sheer degree of centralization we have for CDNs/login turnstiles on Cloudflare.

[dead] 3 years ago

I have a Gmail account that was created by my parents several years ago. It had a somewhat unprofessional name so I ended up creating a new account before I went to university, which eventually became my main account.

However, Google won't let me log into the old account without veryfing access to my old phone number, which I no longer have since I moved to different country for uni.

The worst part is that I do know the correct password for my old account (it has been stored in my password manager for years) and I also have access to the recovery email set for that account.

This is an account with years of emails exchanged with my parents that I would love to archive, but I can't and I find that to be highly dissapointing.