Anyone else running into this validation issue with Youtube and Gmail? I can no longer log in to either despite having my youtube account for something like 18 years as it now requires me to give them a phone number and then run a validation on my phone. I even tried a free text number from textnow and then validating on an emulated Android phone but refuses since my emulated phone doesn't have a SIM card in it.
This is really frustrating as it means I lose all of my subscriptions favourites which I've built up over almost 20 years. I also do not want to validate it on my actual phone as I use this account just for hoop related stuff and don't want that associated with my phone or account, not to mention I have my own personal account that I would be using for that anyways.
Anyone else running into this problem and if so have you figured out a way around it? I'm also locked out of my Instagram as it send a verification email to my gmail which I cannot access
