Google security question

[cellio]

Dear brain trust,

I have an Android tablet. As with my phone, I use it with my Google account. My account confirms new sign-ins or other access grants by sending a confirmation to my phone (so I have to say "yes it was me" there before the sign-in completes on another device). This is all good.

Google also sends that confirmation to the tablet. How do I disable that part, while still remaining signed in on the tablet? I want to use it, but I don't want it to be a source of trust. I've been through the Google security settings and I don't see a way to do this -- a way to say "trust it to be signed in but don't trust it to grant trust".

Comments

[hlinspjalda]

Mr. Fixer says "I don't know a way how to do that."

[siderea]

Hmm, that sounds like one of those super reasonable things that turns out to be impossible because it violates developers' conception of how their thing are used. I'd be pleased to be wrong about that.

[andrewducker]

They used to do this. They stopped in June:
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/09/you-might-not-be-able-to-set-which-devices-get-a-google-account-2fa-prompt-soon/

It's a terrible design decision.