This is something I am seeing more and more of. As companies start to either offer or require 2FA for accounts, they don’t follow the common standards or even offer any sort of options. One thing that drives me nuts is when they don’t offer TOTP as an option. It seems like many companies either use text messages to send a code or use some built in method of authorizing a sign in from a mobile device app.
What are your thoughts on why they want to take the time to maintain this extra feature in an app when you could have just implemented a TOTP method that probably can be imported as an existing library with much less effort?
Are they assuming that people are too dumb to understand TOTP? Are they wanting phone numbers from people? Is it to force people to install their apps?
*edit: I also really want to know what not at least give people the option to choose something like TOTP. They can still offer mobile app verification, SMS, email, carrier pigeon, etc for other options but at least give the user a choice of something besides an insecure method like SMS.
Steam is using their own implementation that is also used for getting push notifications when selling an item on their kind of marketplace.
I don’t use that feature, so having a standard 2FA would be nice as I could back it up like all the others…
Steam’s 2FA is just a different TOTP algorithm, it’s just a pain to extract it. However, once you do, there are TOTP apps that support it - Bitwarden (with premium) and Yubikey Authenticator.
Here’s a guide - note that as far as I can tell this site is not owned by Yubico but is just a random person who put up some Yubikey guides. However I did something similar over a couple years ago - pretty sure I used the same tool that’s recommended - and my Steam account hasn’t been hacked yet.