Or even an account for that matter
Things that I have 2FA for for some reason:
- my abandoned Ubisoft account which holds two free games and doesn’t have any personal details about me
Things I don’t have 2FA for, although I’d probably prefer if I could have:
- my bank account
No, you see banks don’t need 2fa because they’ve got ironclad password requirements like “max of 8 characters, alphanumeric only”.
But some of them don’t tell you that when you first set it, so you have to call tech support and, after sending you a temporary password to log in and set a new password which then also doesn’t work, they’re like “wait, you can’t have & or ! in the password — try it without,” and it works because it accepted the password but removed all special characters without telling you 🙃
My bank doesn’t allow copy+paste into the new password fields, and clears anything you’ve typed if you switch apps.
To set a new password (which is mandatory every 6mo) I have to physically write down the new password that my password manager generates…
Your bank lets you use letters? Mine just numbers. The registration allowed 10 numbers but the login does not allowed more than 8… At least they block the account after 3 incorrect guess and make you ask for a reset in person. So I had to go twice in a day… and the teller lady asked why I don’t use 4 digits like a normal person… Sill beter than the other bank which sends the password back in plain text email after registration in 2019
My bank allows alphanumeric passwords, but only 5 characters
I sometimes wonder how their opsec specialists cope…
2fa for a ubisoft account is actually very important. what if somebody hacks into ur account and buys more ubisoft games???
My bank makes me do 2fa for every transaction
This, but specifically because of Microsoft Authenticator. I hate this app so damn much. [I’m forced to use it] not with TOTP tokens, but push-notification based ones which arrive only sometimes and are slow. And then it’s mocking me saying “pull to refresh if you don’t see a notification”, but there is no pull to refresh feature. Oh and Microsoft Azure Portal? It asks you to authenticate twice in a row, just to be sure. Burn burn burn
Some companies let you use TOTP instead of the app, look in the dashboard and select the verification mode that gives you the qr code
That sounds horrible. I hate that steam requires me to use their app instead of the authenticator app I use for everything else but at least it works every time
I feel this. And the endless fucking prompt to log in. Several times a day. Everywhere. We should bill Microsoft for the time lost.
Only for its “cloud saves” to suddenly forget everything after switching devices 🤦♀️️ I’d upvote 3 times if i could
I store 2FA in the same place I store my password, I just need to copy one, then the other. I may have lost hours or even days to 2FA, the same amount I lose by having to authenticate with a password
My favorite is now needing two email accounts to access one.
also not everything needs email
just username + password is enough usually
Data collection is normalized and people will come up with ““reasonable”” arguments if the practice is challenged.
Passkeys plz
I had one the other day. Enter passcode from Auth app. Ok done. Great. We just emailed you another code enter that now.
:3
If it’s not something you can get it back by demanding it in real life you shouldn’t put 2FA on it. A bank account will be given back for that reason. Accounts online are unrecoverable that way. Lemmy’s 2FA was so bad that many people lost their accounts using it.
