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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I refuse to answer, since "what is the first country you traveled to" is a recovery question used by at least one online service I've used, and I don't want to risk letting someone else have a better chance at guessing the answer I used.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

I just write curse words or pick some random option for those.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tip: if you trust yourself to keep track of stuff, you can just use another password for these fields. I know this is pretty common knowelege in the privacy space, but a lot of people never think of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

This is true. However, if a service uses a "recovery question" at all, and doesn't allow me to use a physical security key, it means they don't really care about security. Moreover, it probably means that they will want me to answer a "recovery question" while talking on the phone or visiting somewhere in person, and I would probably prefer to not appear to be different to other people in a situation like that.