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The secret text is a string of characters that is embedded into the QR code. All 2FA apps then deserialise this QR code into a URI, which contains the secret text and other information regarding timing.

The use of a QR code only without the alternative secret text pasted below makes this very hard. It would be nice to have the secret text there so it can be used in alternative solutions, such as KeePass (seen below).

Putting it there on the site means that I wouldn't need to deserialise the QR code to get to that text.

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