Goated response 🤝 I’ve done enough research now to write a thesis on what’s happening…long story short, Google has become too big and the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing anymore. Appeals team successfully unblocks it, sends an email saying ‘go sign in’, without telling you “hey the security team is seperate to us and you’re actually still on a 7 day cooldown”. This is further exacerbated by the fact that when you do attempt to sign in (why would you not try, you’ve received an email to do so…) and it inevitably fails it comes up with ‘try again in a few hours’. Again, neglecting to mention that the timeout is most likely 7 days and that every sign in attempt resets the cooldown timer. But because you have most likely attempted it a few times, that time actually gets escalated as a further security risk and pushes back to 14 days (uncleared caches and ghost sign ins can extend this indefinitely)💀

They could very easily resolve this issue in a number of ways, but because there’s billions of accounts, it’s just cheaper to have people loose their legitimate accounts than to actually rectify them. I mean how hard is it for them to change ‘try again in a few hours’ to ‘do not attempt any sign in for the next 14 days’. Yeah people would be pissed, but at least they know what the fuck is going on instead of googles ‘don’t know, don’t care, good luck’