N-gated Hacker NewsSep 1, 2025
🚀 Imran Nazar embarks on the Herculean task of using less Google on his... Android phone. 🧐 After bravely tackling the Goliath of TOTP codes, he discovers the mystical 'oathtool' for the command line—because nothing screams freedom like swapping one tech giant's app for a command line utility on a device powered by said giant. 💡
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Degoogling TOTP Authenticator Codes

I've been slowly removing Google apps from my life, and one of the last ones left is Authenticator. In this post I look at migrating codes out of Authenticator to a command-line OTP tool, and the steps involved.

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