If they think I’m installing Edge on my phone they’ve lost their mind.

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    Isn’t Microsoft Authenticator just a password manager and TOTP app? You can replace it with Bitwarden and Aegis (or a dozen alternatives).

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      If you use MS Authenticator you can enable geofencing for SSO. If it’s enabled then no other TOTP apps will work.

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      I’ve worked places where they required specific TOTP apps. That’s the only reason I had MS Authenticator on my phone

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    It’s a fair question to ask why you were using MS Authenticator in the first place, but if you have to use it for a work thing I’m not isue if it will export to other TOTP alternatives or not for Microsoft account stuff. Does anybody know for sure?

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    1 month ago

    Web browsers for password management is a mistake. You cannot change my mind. It’s one thing to say better then nothing and offer the option, it’s another to say this is the only way.

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    This is them closing their walled gardens. The goal is to trap those that don’t know better or ignorantly don’t care.

    Stop using anything Microsoft related on any of your personal devices. It’s an American capitalism virus now.

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        They will amalgamate them into one big “Ai cross platform password management system” which is just optimized to suck up as much private data to train their fucking Ai as possible.

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      Lol Microsoft is not even close to a walled garden. This is just them removing the password manager feature that nobody used from their authenticator app.

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        I used it. And I used Edge. This is the most braindead change they could have made. Edge automatically synced passwords to Authenticator across mobile and PC. Losing the ability to autofill passwords outside of Edge makes it significantly less useful.

        If anything, as someone who was in their garden, this change is unironically making me want to go find another garden to play in instead of stick closer to theirs. Why is Microsoft so hellebent on making people hate it’s software recently?

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          Not that guy but another: No. You? Because Microsoft is a lot of things but walled gardens is something out of Cupertino. Not Redmond.

          You can call MS shitty and I would fully concur but a walled gardens it’s not.

          You don’t need ad, Exchange/outlook, m365, entraid. They’re nice for most users but you can live without and use other services in their place on any MS platform.

          Now, iOS… Have fun with that.