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I dont agree with every point made, but agree with the overall sentinent. My problem is that the same thing can be said about other retailers, especially the brick and mortar ones. Walmart, Target, Home Depot, ...whoever. They've all done it, and continue to do it.

Small business? Yeah, those essentially don't exist in this context.

I have always said, ecommerce isn't killing brick and mortar retail. They are killing themselves. Why? Because I've never felt like a valued customer at any of the retailers out there. I've been absolutely shit on by all the big retailers out there. And that's not even getting into their policies, politics, and other behind the scenes stuff that I do care about, but it doesn't directly impact my shopping experience.

So then I can buy something online, from a wide selection, with competitive prices, have it delivered to my door quickly, and if there's any issues have zero problem with returns? That works for me.

Now in modern times I can argue that they don't always have great customer service, don't always have great pricing (for what you get), and its not all sunshine and roses. But I don't see a viable alternative.

Find me another retailer online or brick and mortar that can supply me well and treat me well and I'll go. But small business cant compete. And big retailers when they had all the money and power they didn't do that so now that they are the underdogs why would they do it? So it's just not happening.

I was thinking of going hardware, and I might still as a backup, bit I think I'll need a software solution as well for family sharing. I'll have to think this through a bit. Thanks.

I used Aegis a long time ago. It was solid. I think I moved away from it for sync reasons (or lack thereof), I'll need to take a look at it again. Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, I'm just looking for choices others are using to compare notes. I like bitwarden a lot, but keeping it for just 1 MFA token is a bit overkill. This is considering bitwarden doesn't allow TOTP codes in their free plan (last I checked).

Yeah Proton Pass, I was using shorthand of sorts considering where I was posting.

Thanks for the recommendation.

One time authentication. Same thing, just different name.

Is pass-otp browser only?

Thank you for this recommendation. I always prefer open source and privacy focused apps.

I get that, but it's more logical to me that of I'm going to whistleblow on a company to not use one of their devices to do it. That way it doesn't matter what apps are or are not secure, you're not using their device that can potentially track you.

Not "you" necessarily, "one".

I bring it up because you mentioned company MDM blocking signal. The fact that company MDM is active indicates its a company device (if it's not that's an entirely different conversation).

So why would one expect privacy on a device they don't own?

Why would you expect any form of privacy on a device you don't own?

Out of curiosity, do you use your xmpp app for SMS as well? I've been doing so (since the majority of my family will not leave the SMS messaging system) but its a bit lacking when it comes to groups and MMS.