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by nijave 1942 days ago
Banks might not support u2f but they pretty universally support some form of 2FA (I think certain things like PCI require it but not sure on exact regs)

It might not be quite as good but email 2FA behind U2F protected email gets you pretty close

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Most support only SMS as security theater, which is worse than useless because it fosters a false sense of security.
My good bank (First Direct) gave me a physical OTP code generator, so I need a PIN and the physical device to get codes which are needed to log in. Once upon a time read-only activities like "Check balance" didn't need a code, but they got rid of that functionality because it's presumably a security risk with little benefit.

The same physical device constructs confirmation codes (proving I know the PIN) for specific inputs like if I want to send money somewhere I've never sent it before or a much great amount of money than usual.

However unlike U2F or its modern successor WebAuthn that's still in principle vulnerable to phishing, if thirstdirect.example pretends to be firstdirect.example and I don't notice, the codes I give to the wrong site work on the real one.