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		mister_hn on Jan 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How would you convince your friends and fa... I would be careful with 4a. Setting it as default SMS client prevents to get 2FA tokens from applications like Amazon, Dropbox, Paypal, or at least, they come with a huge delay.

Abishek_Muthian on Jan 8, 2021 [–]

How come? SMS client functions independent of the GSM stack, I haven't faced any issues due to Signal being the SMS client for several years now.

mister_hn on Jan 8, 2021 | [–]

As I switched back to the default SMS app, "magically" all the 2FA tokens are delivered in less than 10 seconds.

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