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As someone who has been moving countries and subsequently changing phone numbers, every couple of years, SMS 2FA is such a pain. It's hard to recall all servic
by mmmmmbop 3y ago
As someone who has been moving countries and subsequently changing phone numbers, every couple of years, SMS 2FA is such a pain.
It's hard to recall all services that have your phone number for migrating them, and even if you do, many won't accept a foreign number.
I've resorted to holding on to my old phone numbers by transferring them to prepaid SIMs.
- rhaps0dy 3y agoBe careful with this, if you don’t use the prepaid sim for too long, it’ll get cancelled and you will lose access to all these accounts.
- qingcharles 3y agoI've lost access to my near-twenty-year-old Google account this way. I have the username, password and recovery email, but because I can't receive an SMS, I'm dead.
- slashdev 3y agoThat’s horrific. My wife lost her Instagram account the same way. Really ruined part of our vacation in Paris. Looking back on it though, maybe that was worth it.