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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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[โ€“] hello_hello@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I don't use 2FA on anything that doesn't force it, garbage security theater because people don't use password managers or use the same passwords for everything.

I don't know what hurts more: People who don't use Ublock Origin or people who don't use a password manager. Such simple tools that eliminate 99% of the bs.

i don't want to use a password manager. i want to record all of my passwords in a book after encoding them as rebus puzzles.

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