New? Nearby Share has been around for at least a year. The issue is no one knows about it, because as usual Google is horrible with branding.
They should have just called it "Google Beam" or something like that.
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If there is one thing Google is committed to, it's being unstabally committed to all of its products.
Probably because the cat is already out of the bag there. Hard to reign them back in and they'd have tons of bad press if they do that.
For exactly the reasons you state - Google doesn't want ad blockers in their browser.
TWiT is definitely in trouble. The last time I listened to them, one of their advertisements was for... doing advertisements on TWiT. They were also pushing their subscription every chance they got.
Their whole network comes off as a bunch of boomers complaining about technology. I don't think they'll be around much longer.
That doesn't address the issue. Yeah, that makes setting up a code easy on your device - but the code still should be verified and confirmed as working by the website before 2FA is enabled on the account.
Case in point: I used your revered "automated 2FA key implementation" for Lemmy in Authy. It set up the account in my Authy list, and 2FA was supposed to be working. I opened an icognito tab, went to log in, put in my 2FA code and... it didn't work.
Luckily, I still had my settings open in my other window and was able to deactivate 2FA.
The code should be tested and confirmed by the site before it's enabled. Otherwise you can easily get locked out of your account. This is standard practice when implementing 2FA on websites.
Except you didn't confirm your 2FA codes to enable 2FA. You also don't have backup codes you can download.
It may have worked for you, but that doesn't mean it's working properly.
Moving somewhere else? Where?
The only other options are back to Reddit, or somewhere else in the Fediverse. There aren't other options.
Funnily enough, people are already referring to "tweets" on Threads as "threats"
People do, but ease of use will trump it every time.
This is crazy. Google is delaying a competitor to Apple's network so Apple can support it better? Of course they're going to slow-walk it.