As I awoke this morning from uneasy dreams I found that Google had replaced my authenticator app with an anus drawn by Kurt Vonnegut
…wait I'm sorry, fucking *what*? "back up your authenticator codes to the cloud"?! Isn't it *literally* no longer 2FA then? Like at that point the test the authenticator performs isn't "do you have the physical device" it's "do you have access to the Google account". Why not use a Google password manager and skip the authenticator?!
Is the market for this feature people who are being forced by a job or policy to use authenticator 2FA but don't take it seriously?