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Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat

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[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because you're much more likely to lose or break a hardware fob than lose a password, let alone change (lose or whatever) recovery email or phone.

Like, it would be a neat option; ideally you could set up literally anything and say what combination of factors you want to use for recovery and which to use for authentication, but it'd be a pretty big change for a tiny minority of users.