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Google allows for various kinds of 2FA, not just SMS. You can use a hardware key or even Google apps installed on other trusted devices.
by Daedren 4y ago
Google allows for various kinds of 2FA, not just SMS. You can use a hardware key or even Google apps installed on other trusted devices.
- hackmiester 4y agoBut if you don’t remove your phone number then the insecure option is still present.
- orblivion 4y agoGreat, can I use a hardware key (or authenticator app, in my case) if I get locked out of my account like the person who posted this question? That's my point. To be clear, 2FA != account recovery.
- Froedlich 4y agoNot for all accounts. After several years, they started strongly recommending an SMS verification, then finally locked my account when I couldn't provide them one. [I have SMS turned off by my cellular provider] Every year or so I'll see if I can get back in. Sometimes I'm presented with a non-SMS option, but once I work through that, they go right back to insisting on SMS. I only used that account for communicating with one friend, [our mail hosts were blocking each other in some kind of spam war tit-for-tat] now deceased, so it was no great loss to lose the account, but rather annoying that they pretend harvesting phone numbers is some type of "authentication."