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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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[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 48 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Yeah I've been thinking this more and more. Losing a phone now means losing access to everything

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

Discord wanted my fucking phone number and since I use a free voip service it couldn't send it to that so I had to use my dad's phone. So fucking stupid and backwards. I've been using email for decades now and I've never been hacked, what was wrong with that, why you gotta enshittify everything so?

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Discord hasn't asked me for a phone number and I have 2 burner accounts on there with email aliases. I think you just got flagged because you connected with a VPN or something. I use Vesktop as well so that might be why.

[–] GrosMichel@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

I think individual Discord servers can demand phone verification as a way to limit people entering it.

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