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Google is changing how you set up 2FA
Google’s taking out an extra step.
By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Instead of entering your phone number first to enable 2FA, you can now add a “second step method” to your account such as an authenticator app or a hardware security key to get things set up. You can choose to enter a time-based one-time passcode through apps like Google Authenticator, or you can follow the steps to link a hardware security key.
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