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You can use a password to make it so you can't restore. That's the difference with my methods.

There are various ways to store the password to allow some level of management. Give half of it to a friend, write it down, make it super long.

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Why fight the system when you can just leave the system?

It would save people money, you wouldn't have to sacrifice security, and they wouldn't complain about losing Google maps or Signal.

Paper maps still work. What do you sacrifice in security in a dumb phone? A dumb phone is much cheaper. You can still call your friends.

Increasingly services want 2fa and other bullshit that only really plays nice with a modern smartphone. They don’t sell a lot of dumb phones fwiw. The network that your old one in the drawer ran on is shut down. The new “dumphones” are usually android phones designed for old people with poor eyesight and dexterity.

For 2FA, why would I want to use my phone? Certainly not SMS. YubiKey primarily, TOTP if necessary. Neither of which I need a phone for.

Most TOTP solutions are phone based, but you're right you can use them on any platform.

Some 2FA is app based, so that you'd need a phone for.

You wouldn't want to, but it's what 99% of people are herded into doing. TOTP is a lot more supported than hardware keys.

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