PITA

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Originally posted by Marlin Fan:
PITA

Everything that requires the use of a cell phone is a Royal Pain In The Ass. Restaurants that want to text you when your table is ready, or want you to scan a QR code to see a menu or pay your bill. Online purchasing that requires a cell phone number. Any internet access that requires the ability to receive a text for authorization. The list goes on.

Any time I encounter one of these, I just reply "I don't have a cell phone." I am not going to add my number to their list of targets for marketing spam.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Not if you don't have a landline

They moved on from just being a "convenience" about 10-15 years ago

You just proved my point. Your original question to pace40, “ How do you not have a cell phone in the year 2025??????????”, clearly implied that one has to have a cell phone, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

Whose problem is it that you decided to cut your landline?

If someone has access to your cell phone, computer, tablet, smart watch or e-mail, TFA is useless. And annoying. Now I’m finding companies requiring user ID, Password, TFA AND my inputting my zip code (again, what does THIS do?). All so I can pay my bills. If someone else wants to pay my bills, let them. If it is a website where something can be ordered, don’t let them save your card info. Use something like ApplePay, that generates a different number every time it is used.

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Originally posted by SpinZone:
My NFCU app on my phone will send my phone the code, and then automatically read and accept the code for me. So helpful.

My Iphone will automatically pull the code from texts and emails about 90% of the time. Its kinda neat but also pretty scary my phone has this much control.