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Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by dmingod666 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:45AM (#33436648)
Fair enough, but, you then have the problem of not being able to cater to people with feature phones. I think a combined email or SMS based options solve most problem cases.

I don't understand the hate for SMS, like "how are these people in tech?" -- most banks I know of work on SMS based OTP. SMS also gives you a sorr of a real identity to work with and physical location in most common cases (not the app provider, but investigative authorities if they get involved).

Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by lovelearning on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:53AM (#33436792)
I'm personally fine with SMS-based 2FA for others. I just want banks and companies to give me my preferred alternatives.