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If you use more than one browser per machine, you need to reauthenticate for each one, which multiplies the inconvenience. Also the need to generate passwords f

• rufibarbatus 15y ago
  If you feel your machine is well-secured and your passwords are properly encrypted, you might want to set up a device-specific password for yout machine, with limited access somewhat as suggested in the top post. Then you'll only need two factors to access your account settings. The downside, like I pointed out in another comment [1], is that even with (hypothetical) read-only access to your email account, a malicious party could arguably steal your accounts elsewhere on the net — that being the main reason why you'd want to have 2-factor authentication whenever possible. But the trading the 2-factor auth for Google's disposable, device-specific passwords is not at all unreasonable. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699867 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699867