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[+] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There are solutions and ultimately it’s up to you to ensure that you have access to your account not because services are mean and want to hurt you, but because you’re a big boy. They give you security tools and how you use them is up to you.

Are you really sitting here trying to argue that big tech companies like Google and Microsoft somehow has our best interests at heart on a dbzer0 community about privacy where it's abundantly clear to us that they don't? Especially in cases of forced 2FA/MFA adoption with texting.

You know the only worthwhile thing you said was about software based 2FA which @[email protected] already mentioned in a far more civilized manner that made me more willing to listen to him, while also not kissing up to big tech companies who really actually mandate it to make their lives easier and who couldn't care less if you lose access to your account.

The irony is that "to ensure that you have access to your account" isn't really accurate when it comes to the hardware solutions, it would be more accurate to say "to ensure if access is lost, it's lost forever", and I'm never going going to agree or be okay with that because ultimately the person gets screwed over with no loss to the company trying to mandate that. Which is what I was expressing and why I lack any desire or drive to use them, and also my knowledge of how big tech companies operate is ultimately one of the reasons I'm not willing to delude myself into thinking they have my back when they actually don't.