I’ve already tried it some while ago and today I tried it again, but to no avail.
I want to enable 2FA for my Google account with a 3rd party authenticator app, without me providing a phone number to my Google account. I know that if I provide a phone number to my Google account, they will never again allow it to be removed from my account. Because my account was created back in better times, I still had the possibility to create the account without providing any phone number, so I am still lucky to have an account without a linked phone number.
I wonder if anyone found a way to use 2FA for Google through an app without providing a phone number.
I strictly oppose the idea of linking a phone number to my Google account, not only because of security reasons, but also because of reliability reasons as my phone number changes frequently, anyway. So I could even lose my account over this phone number bullshit.
I have little hope, but I know that there was a hacky way of using a 3rd party app for Battle.net, even though it is politically not supported. Though, using a special program you could still do it. I wonder if this is possible for Google, as well.
P.S.:
All this wouldn’t be an issue, if most people weren’t stupid enough to plainly accept bullshit terms that are forced upon them by some huge corporations. Generation “ok, fine” is a huge problem in today’s society…
