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>more and more web services requiring a phone is a step in the wrong direction Absolutely. My bank began requiring a text-to-login, so I just stopped logging i
by ProllyInfamous 5mo ago
>more and more web services requiring a phone is a step in the wrong direction
Absolutely. My bank began requiring a text-to-login, so I just stopped logging in. A branch location is walking distance from my house, so I bother them all the time with simple account information requests (and state every time "when can I use a Yubikey instead of phone for login?").
I legitimately have never scanned a QR code, have never Zoomed, don't even own a phone anymore, and stopped using email many years ago.
Really hoping Yubikey becomes widely accepted at US banks/CUs, soon.
- Worf 5mo ago[dead]
- gib444 5mo agoGood on you Curious about email though - do you mean you don't use it for signups/logins etc or you don't use it in any capacity? You send a lot of letters I guess? Sounds like one of those things which sounds impossible to give up but it isn't really
- ProllyInfamous 5mo ago>don't use it in any capacity? Nope. >You send a lot of letters I guess? [checks own profile] mostly, typewritten. ---- My stockbroker hates my chosen distance. So does my lawyer. So does most family. For most, letters suffice. In my neighborhood I am well respected and known. Everybody else can come visit... or else fuck off. ---- There should be an email/phone platform where you have to pay to contact — and then the receiver can choose to refund payment, if desired. ---- >sounds impossible to give up but it isn't really I am among the free-est persons I know. Definitely the luckiest. Requires a huge amount of sacrifice and disconnection, but I am rewarded immensely with both.
- gib444 5mo agoLove it. You go man. You and I would get on LOL
- ProllyInfamous 5mo agoMy mailbox is in userprofile; if you're ever in the area, I'm just down the road. I don't consider door-knocking rude, but apparently that's not trendy anymore...
- littlecranky67 5mo agoNot really related, but annoying primitive banking authentication flows is why am bullish on stablecoins. I don't need a bank, I'd rather have an open protocol where everybody can design the software and open up competition for wallet implementations.
- ProllyInfamous 5mo agoI've used Bitcoin since 2012 & Monero since 2015. Bank eradication couldn't come soon enough, IMHO. >>GENESIS>BLOCK>> "Chancellors on the brink of destruction"...