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Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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post #114

From the comments, there is some confusion about why did i attach my personal email to a company account. That was not the case, let me clarify it. I created my personal account long before Trello was acquired by Atlassian. It did not have any SSO at that point and the login was with username and password. At some point, while working on a side project and to share it with a teammate, I attached a secondary email to…

Wow, their response is atrocious. It's basically just "Yes, that's right, there was a second email address attached to your account and the owner of the domain for that email set up SSO, so they now own your account. Try asking them nicely for it." I started disentangling myself from Atlassian products a few years ago but I was still using Trello. Clearly that's going to have to stop.

Instead, I have a strict separation rule for these kind of services.

No work stuff is hosted in my personal accounts, and work accounts are always created with a separate e-mail. I can just remove myself from everything work related without touching anything personal.

While I was working with a small group, we had our own domain and e-mail addresses as a perk. My relationship went sour with the lead of the project and, as a power move, she disabled my e-mail and other accounts related to that group, guessing that a lot of stuff is connected to this e-mail (since the domain was prestigious in that circles) and doing so will hurt me a lot.

Since only things related to the group/work was on that e-mail, literally nothing happened. I just broke off cleanly from the group and, a move designed to hurt me brought bliss to the parting process.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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post #60

GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself. All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts. My relationship with GitHub signi…

The million dollar question is what you use now instead of GitHub.

Sourcehut! I love it and have moved most of my stuff over. I'm not sure how it works for teams, but for my personal stuff I couldn't be more pleased.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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From the comments, there is some confusion about why did i attach my personal email to a company account. That was not the case, let me clarify it. I created my personal account long before Trello was acquired by Atlassian. It did not have any SSO at that point and the login was with username and password. At some point, while working on a side project and to share it with a teammate, I attached a secondary email to…

Atlassian is not the only one who wrecked login by implementing SSO across all their instances. I really don’t recommend using in-app dual logins (for example Gmail’s dual login), and stick to using separate Chrome profiles or Firefox profiles, so that none of the cookies are shared. Even with that, I’ve had surprises with my mobile phone number being the only shared information between two Google Ads accounts, and G…

I had to use GDPR to force them to delete one of my accounts because my account got stuck in the registration where I could not complete the registration and could not delete the registration either. First time I used GDPR for anything. Support did not understand the situation, I waked through them the issue with screenshots, nothing.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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post #153
post #141

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Thanks for this. I've been naively using containers. Yes, a UI for profiles would be awesome- we've been wanting that for a long time.

You can either start firefox with `-P` to the profile chooser when starting firefox, or navigate to `about:profiles` to show the UI for managing them. Would allow greater discovery if this `about:profiles` page was exposed somewhere in preferences, but at least there is something I guess.

I just almost always start firefox with a mouse click- even on fluxbox :/

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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post #152

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Firefox Containers are a native feature now.

I remember it used to be a native feature but I'm fairly certain they split it out into a separate addon after a while. Or did they move it back into core?

The basic functionality is in the core. (about:preferences -> search for "container"). But for better UI there is an extension.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Did it actually come from @trello.com? As I got the same email from @trellis.coffee and assumed it was a phishing attempt.

I'm a former Trello employee - trellis.coffee is the domain the primary dev server is hosted at. It sounds like they failed to excise your email address from the dev database (at least, that's what we did when I worked there).

It's concerning that they're obviously copying production data to a dev database.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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post #109

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> Isn't it standard to open separate accounts for companies? I understood that these were separate accounts in separate systems, they just had the same email address attached to both because it was convenient to log into each system from separate workstations - a little bit like using a company phone for a personal telephone call. When one company (Atlassian) acquired the other (Trello), the "accounts" were merged by…

Why is payment relevant to lawsuits?

Easy to show you suffered financial loss, potentially also makes for a strong contract violation case.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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post #111
post #105

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> separate Chrome profiles or Firefox profiles, so that none of the cookies are shared. You don't need separate Firefox profiles for that, you can use Firefox containers.

True, but by using profiles you don't need any extra extensions, it comes built-in in both Chrome and Firefox, you can simply start it with providing the `--profile ` flag. Correct me if I'm wrong, but some IT environments also lock down installing extensions from addons.mozilla.org, so the profiles tip would be applicable to more people.

The problem I have with profiles is it is Browser Wide,

I like to have several Container Tabs open all logged in to different accounts at the same time

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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post #184
post #153

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You can either start firefox with `-P` to the profile chooser when starting firefox, or navigate to `about:profiles` to show the UI for managing them. Would allow greater discovery if this `about:profiles` page was exposed somewhere in preferences, but at least there is something I guess.

I just almost always start firefox with a mouse click- even on fluxbox :/

If you dig around, there is probably a value in `about:config` that lets you tell firefox to always show the profile selector first. Otherwise, add `-P` to the argument fields in your desktop shortcut.
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