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Which really underscores that all of the MFA stuff is actually about security. Because of course it is.

You can't avoid it during account creation.

So they still have the number.

I was able to avoid it, albeit two years ago, when signing up with Apple "Hide My Email." I never gave Google my phone number for that account.

This sounds like it’s new though? And maybe is for testing/dev and will go away?