8mo ago

And another thing! It used to be you didn't need a telly-phone number to sign up for a website! Email was all we needed. And it worked!

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- And we liked it!
- Don't need an email for this website. If I forget the password to this account, then oh well
I think 2 factor authentication is just another way to wrench privacy from users. If it's an option, fine, but I should have the ability to forget my password and be locked out of my account forever if I want to.
- That's exactly how I've been using Hexbear since its conception. This account is a couple months old and when there's an update I'll be locked out forever, just as I've done 5-6 times before.
  
  All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
- in a lot of cases it is but there is serious use for 2FA and you can tell when it is because they will insist on using token generators/yubi keys that are much more secure and don't impact your privacy.
And we was better for it
Love Signal being the go-to private chat and yet requiring a phone number (which, at least in Poland, is tied to your government identity)
- Anonimity != privacy
  
  Lack of anonymity can be utilized to break the privacy
just give them a throwaway russian phone number
- Do I have to sign up for a throwaway Russian cell phone plan?
  
  Use one of the services that temporarily provision the number for you for crypto. I used grizzly and it worked after some trying, but their account system is shit so make sure your account is fully created before you load up crypto.
i also hate the trend of emailed “login links” (“magic links”
). just let me type the password

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