…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?

@mcc A big part of this is folks who upgrade their phone and wipe/sell the old one having forgotten to transfer the 2FA codes.

@FlatFootFox sounds like an argument against 2fa to me, not an argument in favor of fake 2fa?!