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Ring Users Required to Use Two Factor Authentication (ring.com)
2 points by ecliptik on Feb 18, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I don't have a Ring device so I obviously don't know all the features/use cases, but were there a particular facets/features of Ring that made requiring 2-factor auth particularly problematic (e.g. "friction")? For example, I had read Ring made it easy [0] to allow multiple accounts to share access to a single device. How does 2-factor auth affect that feature?

Non-related: I know this kind of doublespeak is common in tech press releases, but this seemed particularly obvious:

> Ring does not sell your personal information to anyone.

In the same section, a couple paragraphs later:

> You can now opt out of sharing your information with third-party service providers for the purpose of receiving personalized ads.

So Amazon/Ring is just sharing personalized info to third-party advertisers for free?

[0] https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/211018223-Control...




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