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by sir_brickalot 403 days ago
Counter: Backups for TOTP are easy and you can use multiple devices/services for a single TOTP login.
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Whether it is easy or possible is irrelevant. For the 99.7% of the world that isn't a software developer, the real-world observed use case will predominantly be the least-friction commoditized workflow. People mostly have one phone with one authenticator app, and that's what they'll use.
You aren’t wrong. It is built in to Googles and Apples though, should be widely used.