> Unfortunately google requires either their app or SMS. They dropped pure totp for some reason.

Gmail TOTP still works fine?

Yup, but it seems it will default to "click the notification on your phone" as soon as you've signed in on a phone. You need to click "try another way", even if you've explicitly told them that TOTP is your preferred default.

If you first enable app or sms then you can add totp (that was my experience at least)

Also hardware keys work just fine with Google.

> Unfortunately google requires either their app or SMS. They dropped pure totp for some reason.

I use TOTP with my Google Account all the time. If you have a phone registered with that Google Account it will default to the push notification system first (it might even be possible to make this no longer the default, I'm not sure), but you can always click the button to switch to alternative 2FA options.

> for some reason

Google plainly dropped totp wherever possible in order to confirm everyone's identity.

Totp was an open standard that didn't help them spy on anyone, and they regret releasing it bigtime.

>Unfortunately google requires either their app or SMS. They dropped pure totp for some reason.

You have to add a phone number, turn that on for 2fa.

Then you can add TOTP.

Then you can disable SMS.

SMS will still work for at least a week because fuck you.