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by qcoh 3725 days ago
I had a similar situation just recently with an old Gmail account. Despite knowing the password, Gmail wants me to answer the security question or log in from a place I logged in ten years ago or list folder names (which didn't exist the last time I used that account) or ...

The whole point of this misery was to recover my Steam account to play a few games. Fortunately, Steam lets you recover your account if you can provide proof of ownership (like CD keys of physical copies).

I don't want Google to be the safekeeper of my digital identity.