Comment by littlecranky67
3 months ago
I try to keep my phone away from my computer during work to get rid of distractions. OTPs can be done with yubikeys & co., but more and more web services requiring a phone is a step in the wrong direction. Especially since google is using so much tracking, that they can merge tracking data from phone and desktop together.
>more and more web services requiring a phone is a step in the wrong direction
Absolutely. My bank began requiring a text-to-login, so I just stopped logging in. A branch location is walking distance from my house, so I bother them all the time with simple account information requests (and state every time "when can I use a Yubikey instead of phone for login?").
I legitimately have never scanned a QR code, have never Zoomed, don't even own a phone anymore, and stopped using email many years ago.
Really hoping Yubikey becomes widely accepted at US banks/CUs, soon.
Good on you
Curious about email though - do you mean you don't use it for signups/logins etc or you don't use it in any capacity? You send a lot of letters I guess?
Sounds like one of those things which sounds impossible to give up but it isn't really
>don't use it in any capacity?
Nope.
>You send a lot of letters I guess?
[checks own profile] mostly, typewritten.
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My stockbroker hates my chosen distance. So does my lawyer. So does most family. For most, letters suffice.
In my neighborhood I am well respected and known. Everybody else can come visit... or else fuck off.
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There should be an email/phone platform where you have to pay to contact — and then the receiver can choose to refund payment, if desired.
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>sounds impossible to give up but it isn't really
I am among the free-est persons I know. Definitely the luckiest. Requires a huge amount of sacrifice and disconnection, but I am rewarded immensely with both.
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Not really related, but annoying primitive banking authentication flows is why am bullish on stablecoins. I don't need a bank, I'd rather have an open protocol where everybody can design the software and open up competition for wallet implementations.
I've used Bitcoin since 2012 & Monero since 2015.
Bank eradication couldn't come soon enough, IMHO.
>>GENESIS>BLOCK>> "Chancellors on the brink of destruction"...
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