If you are not using totp in 2026, you are retarded. Not for the sake of "security", but because no totp just means email 2fa now adays. user:pass auth is dead.totp is literally just a second password that you cat with time and hash. And if you set it up, no website will ever bother you about "suspicious logins" ever again. You can just log into your accounts just as you could with a username/password back when the internet wasn't shit.
>>108885055This is why it is bad. You must be your device.
>>108885029i don't use 2fa if not forced to, and save my passwords in my organic storage, costs a fraction of a calorie to retrieve said password. Imagine not being a pseudo-luddite and antifragile in 2026.
>>108885118NTA but I also do organic storage. Always clear cookies and shiet and never had email 2fa. Sounds like a (you) problem, maybe use better services, anon?
>>108885145an alternative exists for every google service
>>108885118tuta can nuke mineI own 0kb of digital dataI am freeI have ascended beyond ssj
>>108885145>googlesee >>108885127>maybe use better servicesI do have an old gmail I use for the few work mandated shit that complains about non big corpo mail signups, but it's an old gmail, so I always login password only, it always complains bugging me to add a recovery email or phone number and I never do.
>>108885208>it always complains bugging me to add a recovery email or phone number and I never do.I had the same setup. If you log into that old gmail from a new device/ip, it will tell you it's unable to verify you and to try again on your other device.
>>108885238Never stopped me. I just clicked "no thanks" and it always just werked. Latest messages were kek inducing telling about me losing my 50 year old memories stored in this account and the only shit there is stuff I couldn't get elsewhere. I don't even get spam on it.
>>108885262>get elsewhereI mean, that I couldn't register with my other non-google mail. One had the gall to call my regular mail "temporary" as he refused!
>>108885029>user:pass auth is deadMy sites and apps will continue to use this. If you use a weak password that's your own fucking problem.
>>108885279>If you use a weak password that's your own fucking problem.based
I don't care if people log in to my shit as long as they're respectful and don't fuck it up
>>108885740>when apps (banks) force sms 2fa
>>108885029I had 2FA set up on most of my accounts, but after losing my phone and the number along with it, it showed me just how shit it really is.Took me like 2 weeks just to get back into my Amazon account and I still havent been able to convince Fidelity investments that I am who I said I am and not an imposter just because I lost access to the phone number on my account.Turned that shit off and never use it unless im forced to now, im over the meme of "OPSEC". Let me know when they rip the bandaid completely off and identify us with microchips like the livestock they view us as.
>>108885890read the op. totp is not sms, the whole reason i recommended it was to avoid situations like this. if you lose access to an email or phone number, the totp code (which you just store along with your password) "proves it's you" in 99% of cases.
>>108885906re read my post
>>108885906I once deleted my totp app and I had no way of getting into my accounts so your advice is useless
>>108885029i dont want those niggers having privileged information verifying who i am
>>108885145no you dont retard. google just locks you out of your account period if you cannot be fingerprinted. you are mistaken that situation you encountered with them doing it because of 2fa. i have tons of 2fa enabled acounts that are inaccessible because the 2fa isnt fingerprintable, even other gmail accounts wont work.
>>108886513just save TOTP codes in your password manager
I just use user:pass and it works.
>>108885029i use 2fa, factor 1 is the username, factor 2 is the pass.
>>108885105Can't wait for quantum computing to kill you. Fingerprint 2FA in 3 years btw.
this thread GLOWS
2fa is not for you. it is for the company managing you as its user. because for them it's easier if you get locked out forever than if your account gets stolen.
>>108885029>And if you set it up, no website will ever bother you about "suspicious logins" ever again. outlook still does
>>108885890how do you lose a phone number?just call your provider and request a new SIM
>>108888217EVERYTHING still does actually. Scroogle demands I relogin every other week and if I dare login from any location elsewhere e.g. while on vacation I better do a 3 way mfa on top of the normal 2fa OR ELSE.
>>108888241>just call your provider and request a new SIMAs a fun fact: someone else can do this for you and it's why you shouldn't use text message 2FA
>>108888241When the provider refuses to let you have it assigned to a new device for whatever reason.
>>108885029>And if you set it up, no website will ever bother you about "suspicious logins" ever againthat's pretty much the only value of it. ever since i set it up i haven't had one warning from instagram and i am scraping the shit out of it
>what's safer than a password? two passwords! you still get phished anyway but uh...they should give a nobel prize to the genius who came up with this. I know who should get the next one too, whoever comes up with 3fa where you have to save 3 passwords so your account is even more secure.
