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I've been using it for over 6 years now, I've reported a few bugs in this project over that time and there have been a few problematic releases that broke something or another, but I've found the developers to be pretty responsive and care about making their product work.

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If you want to know 'who are these folks', you're free to go to GitHub and look.

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The source code is published on GitHub, so anyone can review it and even compile it themselves to install into Chrome, if they have those skills. Find me another app that has that many installs and doesn't have negative reviews or is 5/5 rated.

It's been downloaded by over 2 million users and has 4/5 stars. I see several negative reviews and this has me concerned.who are these folks? It seems to have become fashionable to bash Google Authenticator here but I’m really not seeing why it generates to much negative sentiment. I have mine backed up across several devices, all in sync. Scan the code and just back out of the process and bingo, you’re backed up. If you select the export function it’ll generate that QR code to scan with another device to transfer them. You can create copies of your Google Authenticator keys across several devices. Ideally, I'd like to export the keys/secrets to a secured file and use a cmdline TOTP script to generate them so I can get off of phone dependency. I have about 2 dozen 2fa accounts on Google authenticator and trying to backup or migrate to a new phone.

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