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> Google on the other hand, do this correctly. You can configure a consumer Google account to only have secure options listed. Are you sure about that? I could
by probably_wrong 3y ago
> Google on the other hand, do this correctly. You can configure a consumer Google account to only have secure options listed.
Are you sure about that? I couldn't activate 2FA in my Google account for years because they didn't enable the option without giving a phone number first. Based on my HN experience, many users gave their phone number from the get go and therefore didn't notice that they couldn't activate 2FA without it.
- pch00 3y ago> Are you sure about that? I couldn't activate 2FA in my Google account for years because they didn't enable the option without giving a phone number first. Just checked, and yes, no phone or email recovery methods configured.
- eep_social 3y agoThe trick with a newly created google account (assuming the regular account creation flow) is to give a phone number at signup and then remove it. There are some non-standard account creation workflows that used to work without a phone number at all but I haven’t tired recently and iirc the last time I did it didn’t take long for google to require me to “verify” my humanity with a phone number.