[ossguy]

Agreed that such services should stop using phone numbers. In the meantime, you can get inexpensive numbers from https://jmp.chat/ - useful for 2FA as well.

[cube2222]

That's technically not two factor if you only need to know a password to get access to the one-time code.

It's two passwords, both are something you have to know, there's nothing you need to have or be (sms and biometrics respectively)

[romwell]

Your comment highlights why phone-based 2FA is not a 2FA.

[cube2222]

It is, you need to have the phone.

But if you can access the phone content remotely behind a password, then it stops being 2FA.

[reustle]

Yeah I use Google Voice for this purpose, which isn't _really_ 2fa anyway (because it's my google account).

[Hydraulix989]

Some services somehow know that the phone number is VoIP (Google Voice) and disallow you from using it with TFA. IIRC, Steam is one example.