jmw,

Look. I get it. More is better.

But at what cost?

My gripe today is every website I use suddenly requiring 2FA when there would be little/if any info that could be gained from them.

Does my boardgame collection management site REALLY need to email me a code "JUST TO MAKE SURE IT'S ME"? I am pretty sure they cannot transfer a game from my collection to someone else's with the click of a button.

This becomes even more irksome when it's some random website that I signed up for with a user/pass and NOW it wants to send me emails to confirm it's me. Maybe I'm the only one on the planet however I'm not staring at my inbox 24/7 just waiting for a code. Let me opt out of this junk.

I am NOT against security. all the things for financial, healthcare, identity and other high risk targets (or their tangential sites) but at some point it's just a pain in the ass going back and forth between sites, (which is bad -anyway-), Email, the authenticator app, etc.

That's not even address the fact that these 2FA solutions often seem like security theater, which means it's making my chore longer for zero actual benefit.

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