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If you go into your account settings you'll see a shiny new 2FA setup option. Once you check the box and reload there will be a button to there link your default 2FA application.

Now for Safari users on macOS who don't use Apple Keychain for your 2FA but rather a 3rd party app like 1Password or Bitwarden things are a little tricky. In order to get around linking it directly to Keychain you can right click the 2FA link and choose "inspect element." Scroll down slightly and you'll see that element highlighted in the new element window. Right click the highlighted area and select "copy link." That's the 2FA code which you can then paste in any 3rd party password manager.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Please be very careful doing so. It's very easy to get locked out doing this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is that because it's implemented poorly, or are you giving a standard warning about 2FA?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not implemented well because it adds it to your account immediately without needing to confirm the code. This means if the user doesn’t know what they’re doing they could add 2FA and not copy the code correctly to their password manager resulting in a lockout.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ouch! Might be wise to put a warning in your post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or even an edit to the title.

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