help.. i’m dumb
howard_the_suck45
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i made a new account to freshen up life a bit- but made it with a stupid throwaway fake email and a password i cannot remember. how can i recover the password?
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If you didn’t bother to write down what you are using for username/password, especially if it doesn’t exist in real life, then it was something you knew in advance you weren’t gonna care about.
And so now it's basically gone.
Then don't be dumb, i guess.. /s
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However, I am obliged to remind people that doing this in general is not just "stupid haha." In this day and age, creating online accounts for any service anywhere with your eyes closed is fundamentally unsound. If you do not record and do not remember what you're doing, you could end up repeating it elsewhere. You could end up leaving accounts behind that could be cracked without your knowledge because you no longer use them. You could be leaking information about how you "randomly" create passwords for other accounts.
It was bad practice in 2002 to make a bunch of random accounts all over the place and then forget about them. It is very dangerous to do this in 2022.