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Wild guess: Bell, Rogers, and Telus probably wouldn't allow it because they couldn't milk Canadians for as much then
Why? In the US program the government pays for them. What kind of business would turn that down? Looks like the CRTC mandates cheap plans the mobile companies offer free phone and plans too. https://www.telus.com/en/about/news-and-events/media-release...
I have both YubiKey and SMS 2FA active on my Google account. However, for SMS purposes I got an extra phone number that nobody knows (well, nobody but me, Google and my phone provider) and that is inactive except when (A) I need to use it for 2FA purposes or (B) I need to top it up to keep it in service (which is every 6 months, approximately). Is there still a risk of someone cloning my simcard even though I did not…
Be careful that the provider doesn't disable that number after 1-2 years without any activity.
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How much are you paying for this service you need google to fix? I ask because with their paid email products there are a fair number of routes to get help, your admin, then if that doesn't work you can go up the chain... If you are on a free account you may not be (individually) worth a ton to google revenue wise and so support is going to be poor (they have 1.8billion+ ACTIVE gmail users I think - if they increase…
It's pretty tone-deaf to tell someone who's posted about being poor and previously homeless that they should have to pay Google $500 to recover their account.
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Be careful that the provider doesn't disable that number after 1-2 years without any activity.
Do they really disable paid-up numbers if nothing connects to them for a year?
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Yes!!! This has happened to me before. I entered my TOTP and then Google forced me to open YouTube on my phone. I didn't have YouTube (I deleted it), so I had to re-installed the YouTube app and sign in through that before I could login to whatever I was initially trying to do.
This makes absolutely beyond zero sense given how Google accounts work on Android, or just in general.
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You need the password too. That's what makes it two factor.
If one of the factors is widely known, it's effectively not two-factor anymore.
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The trick isn't to disable 2FA. It's to add a bunch of 2FA methods that don't rely on your cell phone: authenticator app, yubi keys, backup codes.
This is terrible advice. Please don't ever rely on authenticator apps. Try changing your phone, resetting your phone or losing your phone and watch yourself get locked out of your accounts with absolutely no recourse.
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This is terrible advice. Please don't ever rely on authenticator apps. Try changing your phone, resetting your phone or losing your phone and watch yourself get locked out of your accounts with absolutely no recourse.
I agree, auth apps actually work relatively painlessly for day-to-day (especially if someone else supports them, like at work), but for me at least, as a personally managed last resort they turned out horrible. If something happens to the device(s), you're screwed. Even SMS is better, because at least you can move the sim or eventually recover your own phone number on a brand new device, even if the old one vanished.…
> So my phone has been failing to charge for three weeks and I bought a new phone today and can't get it set up because the old one is dead and I can't get a verification code. So I moved the old sim card on the advice of one of my sons and the codes are still going to the old physical phone and Google says it will send me a link in 72 hours.