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I personally am fine with this.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (22 children)

No offense to companies but I'm honestly sick of companies forcing 2fa. Every single one seems to have a different shitty way of doing it. Like why on earth do I need two different authenticator apps on my phone (authy&google authenticator)? Some do sms/phone number, but then yell at you and prevent you from doing 2fa if you have a "bad phone number". This happened on discord where I'm locked out of certain servers because I can't do phone verification, and I can't do it because discord doesn't like my phone number. Twitter was the same way for a long while (couldn't do 2fa/phone verification due to them not liking my number).

From the article it sounds like they're doing authenticator app or sms. I'm guessing sms won't work for me, so app it is. I decided to dig to see which authenticator app they use and they list: 1password, authy, lastpass, and microsoft.... no google?

Honestly, even email requirements for accounts is annoying because you know it just ends up spamming you. is the future where we're gonna have to have 30 different authenticator apps on our phone?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Google Auth works just fine. The standard for app generated 2FA is, well, standard. They're only listing a non-complete list of options for people that don't know what an authenticator app is and need to get one for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The google auth which transmits your totp code in plaintext to there servers?

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