[Infinitesimus]

Ha I'm in the same boat as well. Locked out of my first ever Gmail account and thank the stars that I had this forward everything set up.

Every few months, I try the recovery process again to no avail. "Sign-in with Google" is very convenient so it'll be a pain to move to proton + outlook but c'est la vie

[Multicomp]

Are you me? I also don't have access to my first Google account but it forwards all of its emails to my current one.

I can confirm it works as well since someone sometimes fat fingers whatever email address they use for car repair and I get the invoice for it due to Google not respecting the dots in the email address.

My master plan is to get hired at gmail just so I can click the admin reset password button and get access to that account directly so I can finally see the very first emails I ever received.

[briggers]

Similar thing happened to me. Lost access to a perfectly set-up forwarding account. The account recovery process is impossible because I nolonger have the same phone number from 10 years ago.

[nucleardog]

Hey me too! Changed my phone number like 12-14 years ago so can no longer access the account.

And same as everyone else, already had forwarding in place so it's just kind of... there in an uncomfortable limbo. I don't really use it for much so it's not a big loss but it would be nice to resolve one way or another.

[RonanTheGrey]

I stopped using "Sign in with Google" about a year ago and moved to storing all my passwords in my Firefox account and in Bitwarden (and sometimes in iCloud for good measure).

I never use Google to login anywhere anymore. I create an email and an (autogenerated secure) password everywhere. If they don't see fit to support this, they don't get my business.

Then I just let Bitwarden/Firefox take care of everything. Logins, etc. I have 500? passwords stored. Don't know any of them. I prefer it this way.