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This is why I like authy because you can use it everywhere on most systems

I love Authy and used it for a ton of stuff, but some places started not supporting it. I'm looking at you coinbase. For some reason I have three 2FA apps on my phone now. I purposely didn't have 2FA setup on some accounts while I was living abroad because so many SMS based 2FA for sites don't support international numbers.

I'm just glad google caved allowing you to use authy. For a while they only allowed you to use their authenticator and I just hated it. I don't care how much integration went in with Android. Authy I can install on linux, windows, mac, android, and IOS. What is there not to love there?

I'm just glad google caved allowing you to use authy.

Why do you think they did this?

Do you think building Google Analytics into Authy had anything to do with it?

Repeat after me --- until proven otherwise, assume everything Google does has privacy invasion built into it. This includes "caving".

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