I’m trying to use my phone less and less. Ideally I’d like to even switch a dumb phone.

But tactics like this will make that nearly impossible if every website starts requiring a QR code scan on a authorized smartphone.

Which means, it's urgent that more and more people realize there are alternative to the everything-on-the-phone situation they live in. And that owning one is not mandatory and should not be (by the way, politicians should also wake up).