Account security increasingly depends on a layer of automated notifications most users treat as routine noise rather than urgent signals. Google's app-password system and third-party OAuth grants are particularly dangerous precisely because they create persistent access with minimal friction, and the only real defense is the alert that fires to the recovery email — a secondary channel that quietly doubles as an audit trail and an early-warning canary. The narrow window between an alert being issued and a user acting on it is where account control is won or lost; dismissing these notifications as phishing or
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