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I recently lost my Android phone, and in order to use Find my Phone service, I needed to login into my google account. But I couldn't log in from my notebook, because it required me to approve the login using ... my lost phone! Is this what Google programmers are paid $250k salaries for?

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Sounds exactly like a deep bureaucracy at work! How do they even sit and design such systems and who signs off on such designs? It’s as if the company that prides itself for tech has mostly incompetent people with no real world experience or real world information gathering skills.

The explanation is that the story has been made up. You don't need to pass a second factor for "Find my Device". You can confirm that by visiting https://www.google.com/android/find in an incognito window.

Sir, you have accused me of lying. Here's the screenshot proving my point https://ibb.co/k0N33hf. Now kindly apologize.

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