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by jrm4 1342 days ago
Exactly.

Now, why are they doing it for free? Why take on a huge responsibility for no money, what do they get out of it?

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If people use this instead of passwords, they get less compromised accounts on their services that they have to deal with.
Less customer support for dealing with hacked accounts. Same reason places support and even push 2FA, otherwise what is their incentive to support 2FA?

Fortnite even has a free dance that you can only get by enabling 2FA.