I’d like your expert advice. My old smartphone is about to kick the bucket, and I can’t wait to finally let go of the tiny depression rectangle for ever. How can I keep using OTP and 2FA services when on a dumb phone? I expect that with time I will manage to limit the use of services that require this kind of stuff, but can’t at the moment. I don’t use my smartphone for much, so I don’t expect to run into much trouble, but is there anything else I might be forgetting apart from authentication issues? I’ll speak to my bank to see what they offer besides 2FA and app - I’m sure they have something since it’s a bank for farmers and old rural folk.
Btw I have been enjoying my collapse lately, as so much over-engineered stuff just starts failing and encourages a retreat to more simple solutions. I’ll do my part by ditching the surveillance box.
That’s the reason why I use a smartphone… like a dumb phone.
I install on it only the apps I need and must have access to: security, finance,… apps like that. And nothing else. No game, obviously no social, but also no music, movies, not even ebooks and also no ‘but I like that app so much I can make an exception’. No nothing. I don’t even use the agenda on that phone, I use a paper one, and I barely use it as a phone too. It’s dumb and almost useless (just not completely useless), exactly like I want it to be.
Your and Günthers comment pointing out I might just use my smartphone wrong - I guess additionally to wanting to solve my own issues with phone use I also want to make a tiny personal political statement - so that in the future whenever a public or private organization wants to force me to download their app I will point out that I can’t, even if I wanted. I want to fight back against the growing expectation that one has to carry a smartphone before we have to carry the stupid things by law. I love all the convenience but I’m becoming more and more convinced that we lose to much through it.