Not once was I asked if I wanted 2FA (two-factor authentication) for my Apple or Amazon accounts.
I don’t want 2FA, because, being homeless/poor, you frequently lose access to phones and the like. That’s why a lot of homeless people will have like a dozen abandoned FB accounts (I have 3), because we just haphazardly use the suggested “secure password” to log in, and then someone steals our phone, or we lose it, or drop it in the toilet.
So no, Apple, I don’t have that device anymore. I don’t have that phone number either. Or access to that email address. The last four digits of a debit card I’ve used? b0i.
The one thing I do have?
MY FUCKING PASSWORD
I’m getting locked out of accounts I have the fucking password for! What the FUCK?
when you’re in a different country and using a different sim card and trying to log in to your email: we just sent a text to your phone. oh you can’t use that phone number? tough luck. you’re probably not really you. we’re going to stop you from using your own account
or when you’re in a country that restricts access to certain platforms but not others: we sent an email to your backup email. can’t access it? screw you, user. how about we send you a text message? haha, you can’t do that either, loser? how about we lock you out of your account?
i agree with the OP, 2FA is a bunch of techbro bullshit 80% of the time and designed to make you link your real name or phone number or other accounts to this account, for data purposes