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googlryas on Oct 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose ...

That's literally how it was before 2FA. You can just look up the reasons for 2FA to answer your question.

account42 on Oct 10, 2022 [–]

So you are saying that the homeless using plain passwords is wrong because tech giants want to collect personally identifying information under the guise of security? How does that make sense?

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