It may sound silly, but this actually annoys me a little bit...
I have F2A for my stuff at work, and whenever I'm asked to introduce the code generated by my phone, I get this screen. What's wrong with it? That it specifically talks about Google Authenticator, immediately setting a preference towards one specific app (from Google, no less). I use Aegis Authenticator (free, open source, https://getaegis.app/), at it works perfectly.
Why the need to veer you towards Google apps by default?
@COMPU73E@chris For me it's precisely the cloud sync what makes me frown upon it... I reluctantly agree to having passwords sync'd across devices, but for things where I enable F2A I want to be in full control of those keys...
Also, it's part of my slow but steady effort to disentangle from Google 😅
@hk@COMPU73E@chris I can't remember exactly, but I think Google cloud sync is rather new.
My main reason for switching to Aegis, besides getting away from Google, was the possibility to export and backup my 2FA configs. 😬
Google Authenticator didn't support that initially and losing my phone would have meant losing all my 2FA codes.
Now I can just remote delete/brick my phone and restore the backup to somewhere else. 🙂
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