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by dochtman 4821 days ago
That's just the fallback identity provider Mozilla runs. The idea is that your GMail address will authenticate you using whatever GMail uses, so you can use 2-factor authentication.

If you have your own domain/server, you can easily switch out password authentication for something else today if you run your own Identity Provider. Here's my minimal Python IdP implementing TOTP (Google authenticator) authentication:

https://bitbucket.org/djc/persona-totp