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Personally, I find it particularly infuriating that more and more companies are demanding to use phone-based 2FA even when I already have 2FA authentication set
by crooked-v 4y ago
Personally, I find it particularly infuriating that more and more companies are demanding to use phone-based 2FA even when I already have 2FA authentication set up. This applies to Google, too, which has forced me to add a phone number and get a SMS 2FA code for accounts that already had non-SMS 2FA configured.
The whole reason I use an authenticator app is so that my accounts aren't dependent on having the same phone number forever!
- Liquix 4y agoBeing strongarmed into giving up your phone number is as much "for your security" as manifest v3 is "for your privacy". They could care less that you have 2FA enabled, they want that phone number. Many people never change their numbers and enter them into hundreds of sites, creating a wealth of data which can then be profitably correlated with your email content, google account activity, searches, location, etc.
- gerash 4y agoI'm sure you won't blame it on the "big bad tech" once you drop your phone in the pool and lose access to your accounts because they never asked you to create an SMS backup
- crooked-v 4y agoI already have my own backups. Chaining me to a specific phone number on top of that isn't a backup, it's a liability.