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Check the instructions at https://authy.com/guides/paypal/. Those seem to work for me, I can indeed now add an authenticator app just as shown there.



Thanks, I think it worked. At least they are no longer asking me to confirm the mobile number, although I can't seem to delete the unconfirmed number so who knows if there is still a way to use it to take over the account :(. Along the way I found a disturbing number of TOTP utilities that want you to pass the key on the command line :(. I found this one as a simple version that doesn't do that and uses OpenSSL or LibreSSL:

https://github.com/arachsys/totp


Nope, didn't fully work. The still won't let me add a credit card without receiving a text.




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