...yeah, um. I'm not against the idea of two-factor authentication in itself? Particularly if it's opt-in. But not phones. I hate phones, and while I have been browbeaten into having one, I often don't know where it is, and even if I do it's usually out of battery. Also I don't know the number, though I guess I could find that out. But I don't want to have to find my fucking phone to log into ANYTHING, and I don't care what it is. (Also, don't a lot of US phone companies charge you for receiving texts, particularly if you're prepaid? Which is complete and utter crock, but...)
If it was a different kind of two-factor - secret questions? auto generated emails you have to grab the link from? I don't know pretty much anything about this, heh, but I'm sure the internet has thought of many ways it could be done - I think it'd definitely be a good idea to at least look into!
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...yeah, um. I'm not against the idea of two-factor authentication in itself? Particularly if it's opt-in. But not phones. I hate phones, and while I have been browbeaten into having one, I often don't know where it is, and even if I do it's usually out of battery. Also I don't know the number, though I guess I could find that out. But I don't want to have to find my fucking phone to log into ANYTHING, and I don't care what it is. (Also, don't a lot of US phone companies charge you for receiving texts, particularly if you're prepaid? Which is complete and utter crock, but...)
If it was a different kind of two-factor - secret questions? auto generated emails you have to grab the link from? I don't know pretty much anything about this, heh, but I'm sure the internet has thought of many ways it could be done - I think it'd definitely be a good idea to at least look into!
But seriously, fuck phones.