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Installed Steam on a new computer. Signed in. It sent a passcode to my GMail. I signed into GMail. It wanted me to 2FA because I hadn't signed into Google on that device. It sent a notification to my phone, which I never received. I had it resend the notification twice, still nothing. Tried again with my phone's offline passcodes. Neither worked. Tried the QR code/Bluetooth connection, and that finally did it.

At least I got through in the end, but fuck, it's annoying.

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[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why can't services just use TOTP for 2fa. It's more secure, more convenient and less work.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Steam's preferred 2FA is getting a code from their app. It looks like it might be TOTP technically but they don't freely give out the secret for use in another app, but there might be ways to extract it.

Google offers TOTP and used to let you set it as the default, but now I guess they want to push their own in app prompt so you have to pick the "try another way" option every time.

Dark patterns are for cowards. Either remove the feature like you want to or just keep it.

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