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[โ€“] suckmyspez@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LMAO yeah, how dare they provide an alternative way to log into your account if you lost your phone ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] ejmin@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? They don't suport a username+password login?

[โ€“] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No. Only phone number. The password is sent by SMS on every login.

[โ€“] neutron@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 year ago

I hate apps and services doing that.

[โ€“] Asudox@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

great. I always wanted to receive passwords via sms

/s

[โ€“] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a password it's a one time code to confirm you have access to the phone number.

[โ€“] Asudox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still bad. TOTP is better than that.

[โ€“] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Like I said, the goal is to verify access to the phone number, because that's the main account identification.

TOTP is not related to the phone number in any way.