Google Security Settings?

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For my google account, I naturally want them to know as little as they can. Of course, they still have a lot, but why not? Is this good enough?

What I have enabled

2-Step Verification
Authenticator
Backup Codes

What I don't have enabled

2-Step Verification Number (IT shows my Google Voice phone number, which might be helpful since I have it set to forward messages to my actual number I don’t think it counts.)
Recovery phone number
Recovery Email

What should I change?

Note: I was thinking to add an alias for the recovery email to send to my Proton address. Some of this doesn’t make sense so tell me if I need to specify.

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For security If you need the highest level of security, look into google advance protection program.

If not, enable TOTP and have a strong password.

For privacy, look for ‘privacy checkup’ under google account and disable everything you can.

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I don’t need the highest level, I just wanted to see if I should enabled anything disabled. I’ll also check on the privacy settings. Thanks!

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Using at least one recovery alias email outside the googleverse makes sense to me. Currently I have five or so gmail accounts the one with the least amount of use or history has an alias email.
Considered using multiple Google Voice numbers as a recovery phone numbers. If I only had one gmail account I would create another account just for recovery, of course the main goal is to stop using google for anything twice. As in every time I feel I have to use google create a new account.

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Yeah, that is what I was thinking as well. For me, I only have a google account for YouTube. I’ll try making another for recovery, and see if it’s good for me. Thanks for your input!

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Google recently added passkeys support. It might offer better security than TOTP.

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Will definitely try it out. TY!