So I finally fumble-fucked around and guessed my way back into the password.
But, FIRST, I tried resetting things using my still good access on my phone. Not that google was gonna make that shit easy. Nope, my browser is too out of date to be used with googles services. Fair enough, I prefer an older version of Firefox, so I just updated it and tried again. You guessed it, google still wonāt accept that my brand new, freshly installed browser is good enough for them. Access denied.
I will never in my life understand why the hell I need to update the software Iām using on a constant basis. I do understand that it needs the occasional update under the hood, so to speak. But WHY oh WHY must EVERY SINGLE THING that I use be moved / relocated / or hidden. My phone is the perfect example. I like the keyboard that came with it. And theyāre just desperate to update to a new version. You canāt even opt out. I just have to make sure that my phone never ever ever ever sees a wi-fi connection, because thatās the moment that it will choose to āimproveā itself to the point that I canāt use it for a week or two, while I track down all the little things that contribute to itās functionality.
The firefox update? Wiped out all my bookmarks. Replaced them with FUCKING TILES. As far as I can tell itās just so they can shove advertisements in there too. So now Iāve got to go in and find and kill all the little on / off selections that are repsonsible for getting between me and the core functionality of the fucking phone.
Nobody gets on there phone or pc or whatever to admire the interface. Itās like going to a basketball game to watch the ref. Itās there to be functional, and stay out of my way while Iām accessing data. I DO NOT NEED OR WANT the damn thing trying to steer me to whatever bullshit itās trying to push on me.
Pretty sure Iām going to have to wipe firefox and reinstall an older version just to get it mostly functional again. Which means Iāve got about a 30% chance Iāll have to factory reset the phone and start from nothing. All because google tripped balls and got stuck in basic view.
And the fun part? As soon as I got back in, it reverted to standard view, so this whole fiasco was a giant waste of time.