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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 1 day ago (17 children)

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

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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?

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 4 points 21 hours ago

yeah everything being tied to phone numbers, but all voip numbers being blocked has some serious privacy implications

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