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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It doesn’t help that most password managers kind of suck, you have to do a lot of manual work as a user sometimes.

I wish websites would start supporting Webauthn/FIDO2 sometime soon. I’m sick of SMS-based 2FA becoming more popular lately (like 10 years late).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, the bank that manages my mortgage has mandatory text message 2fa if you're on a new computer. And something about Firefox keeps it from remembering my machine, so I have to do the text message 2fa everytime.

Right now it's working fine, but they had a period of a few months where the text messages would take 10-15min to send after you tried to log in, and the log in attempt would expire after 5 min, making it impossible to log in. All of which could be avoided if they would let me use a 2fa app.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

cookies, firefox has protection against trackers, go to your bank site and click in the shield an the top left and disable it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’ve configured 2FA with my bank using verification codes (can’t think of the proper name, it’s that Authy-/Google-style 2FA c. 2010) but then never utilizes it — it pretends that’s not set up and requests the SMS code. 🫠

[–] dbx12 3 points 5 months ago

The thing you are thinking about is called TOTP or timed one time password.