Meta recently changed how two-factor authentication works for Facebook and Instagram. You might have received a notification about this, but it was easy to miss in the platform’s sea of red alerts. OK, so what’s different? “Any devices you’ve frequently used Facebook on in the past two years will be automatically trusted,” reads Meta’s updated settings page. This means it’s automatically adjusted, unless you go into your settings and opt out.
Over the years, Meta has made multiple tweaks to how it deploys 2FA. In 2018, it started to allow 2FA codes generated by third-party apps. A few years later, the company began requiring more vulnerable accounts to activate 2FA
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