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Comment by crazygringo

Good point about it being similar to passkeys.

But why would it be better to use passkeys?

Because don't sites with passkeys generally still allow you to fall back to password, since it's common for people to lose their phone and then lose their passkey? Whereas sites with 2FA obviously don't, and have more complicated/secure recovery mechanisms?

So seems to me like 2FA (TOTP's) are currently vastly better in practice?

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