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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid
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Systems at work use google authenticator for 2FA. Prior jobs have used Duo.
My work has me using 3 different 2FA apps depending on what service I'm accessing. It's great! Especially with the noticable battery consumption increase after setting up 2 more 2FA apps than I had before
Google Authenticator is merely a generic TOTP token storage app. The person you're replying to was pointing out that Google Authenticator, specifically, isn't necessary. There are alternatives, and unless you're using a company-owned device that restricts the apps you can use there is no way for work to dictate which app you use for TOTP tokens.
Duo, Okta Verify, and other 2FA apps that use push notifications and such, are a different beast altogether.