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Yeah, but every crisis is an opportunity and this is an opportunity to scare people into coughing up PII that advertisers love so much.

TOTP doesn’t expose PII.

True, but the email required to enable it (arguably) is.

Reddit is far from the worst offender in this area. I should have specified my opinion as a more general one.

Most sites don't let you register at all without an email.