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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by mistercheph »

kmbfjr wrote: post #528
mistercheph wrote: post #484

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LOL it’s not some sisyphean task to not use big tech products, its slightly inconvenient and takes some time to adjust, don’t talk about it as though it were something that only the great men of the ancient times could do, take your iPhone and throw it as hard as you can against the concrete, you will be fine.

Great advice if you don’t need a smartphone. Many do, they are now an identity tool. The alternative to Apple is…Google? How is that in any way better other than not being Apple? Sure, there are de-Googlefied versions of Android and today they work . But Google is actively working on ending the ability of those alternative operating systems to work.

just curious, where do you have to use a smartphone?

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Post by the_af »

zx85wes wrote: post #541
the_af wrote: post #513

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I had similar trouble redeeming a gift card on Amazon. Twice. (thankfully they got resolved upon appeal). Enough that I am very wary of buying or redeeming gift cards now, especially more than one in a row. Apparently there's some sort of scam with gift cards, which must affect any platform which allows them, and legit uses often get flagged by automated systems. If they are so much trouble for Amazon/Apple I wonder…

Going through this at the moment. Was it a physical card? What evidence of purchase did they ask you to provide?

It was a couple of years ago, it was virtual cards (I think one was a card given as reward by one of those legit review sites - edit: Gartner or one like those - which will reward you for providing reviews, and the other was money I had elsewhere that I converted to an Amazon card).

I remember I went through some automated process which asked me for some account details, and after a few hours (fewer than one day, I remember as much) my account was unlocked. It was scary!

What I remember puzzled me is that it was only two low-value cards. I would have understood the system being triggered by a lot of low value transactions, or a few large ones... but these were few and low value! Go figure.

Sorry I don't remember more details. All I know is it made me scared of gift cards.

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Post by zelphirkalt »

tonymet wrote: post #553
pitaj wrote: post #529

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Off topic, but I'm curious. Why are you typing spaces before every period and comma?

Maybe iPhone is adding those ?

First of all, you don't have to care about this, unless you are wanting something from others and you depend on others and their opinion about your writing significantly.

That said, it does make your writing seem very odd. A little bit like the people, who apparently don't know what the shift key does, or how to trigger capital letters on their phones or something, and write only in lowercase letters.

Just because your phone does something silly, and it is not you doing it intentionally, that doesn't mean, that other people will not get a weird impression from you writing like that. In a way, you are letting your phone change the impression others are getting from your writing. And that impression is for many people that they wonder, whether you know the conventions of writing.

Now, like I said, you don't have to care about this. But if you want your texts to not come across like teenager written texts or low effort texts, it would be a good idea to fix your phone's silly settings, so that it doesn't do that to your writing.

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Post by rvnx »

kombine wrote: post #597
dotancohen wrote: post #547

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> I'm a Zionist I don't like you too.

Depends,

> Zion serves as a living space for humans who have chosen to be disconnected from the Matrix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_(The_Matrix)

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Post by kube-system »

skydhash wrote: post #599
tonymet wrote: post #560

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So let me try to understand you. You have 200 friends on whatsapp and FB locks you out . Now you can start sending them letters ? And how do you get their number . WhatsApp,WeChat , messenger , telegram all use private addressing

You don't have 200 friends on WhatsApp. You have 200 contacts on your phone, which WA will pick up.

Maybe you do. I have zero contacts synced with WhatsApp

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Post by rambojohnson »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #530
tonymet wrote: post #492

I back up regularly using Google Takeout and similar tools, but I don’t think it’s fair to shame this author . Even if you have backups , your recent and essential content and credentials will be locked out . 1% of your content is the most important We all depend heavily on cloud storage and sso . Everything works fine until you are locked out . And using them isn’t fully voluntary. They are necessary for collaborati…

I am not depending on cloud storage at all. What do I need to upload onto some cloud? And when I need to sync between devices, or rather want to sync, then I have a Syncthing setup on my server running. No cloud. And copies on participating devices. Sure, it is not directly their fault, when they are treated badly by big tech. Though of course they could have been more careful, and rely less on big tech and cloud. We…

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Post by dpkirchner »

bdangubic wrote: post #435
queenkjuul wrote: post #372

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That you don't keep a PayPal balance and i don't buy Apple gift cards is irrelevant to the people that do keep a PayPal balance and do use Apple gift cards

I wish there are more comments like this on HN - well done :) the number of people commenting like “well I don’t do/use/…” is mind-boggling

Maybe they're one of today's lucky 10000, learning that other people are different.

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Post by wpm »

quickthrowman wrote: post #587
quinncom wrote: post #446

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I'm the author of that Reddit post. I should probably update it to clarify that I didn’t just purchase the gift cards, but also redeemed them. I don’t think it was purchasing them that triggered the lock on my Apple account. I mean, after all, how would they know what my Apple account is until they’re redeemed?

I’m not trying to be rude, but what is the point of buying and then redeeming gift cards yourself? I just pay Apple with my credit card when I want to buy something. Is this some kind of weird credit card rewards churning thing? Are you unbanked? I don’t understand why you’d voluntarily add unnecessary extra steps. A credit card offers far more protections to consumers than a gift card. Given the amount of false posi…

Lots of stores offer deals on gift cards, essentially giving g you a discount at the cards’ store. $100 Apple gift card for $80 means you can buy something at Apple for $20 off if it is less than $100.

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Post by lwkl »

kuon wrote: post #195

I treat apple ID and google ID like throwaway accounts. I would never trust anything valuable to either. The problem is that it is very hard for "usual people" to do that. I will also never have an electronic ID. We (Switzerland) were dumb enough to vote yes for it but we are giving away our freedoms eventually. We need regulations to ensure vendor cannot lock in users and cannot threaten them. Everything should work…

The digital ID in Switzerland [1] is literally the best case scenario from a privacy standpoint. It is basically an ID that is stored on your phone that can send a signed copy of your data to someone verifying it. But instead of sharing all your data everytime it can also only share part of your data or only verify that you are above a certain age.

I personally prefer this to sending a copy of your ID and a video with my face to someone verifying service provider that verifies my identity for a bank or some website.

[1] https://www.eid.admin.ch/en/technology

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Post by rambojohnson »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #603
tonymet wrote: post #553

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Maybe iPhone is adding those ?

First of all, you don't have to care about this, unless you are wanting something from others and you depend on others and their opinion about your writing significantly. That said, it does make your writing seem very odd. A little bit like the people, who apparently don't know what the shift key does, or how to trigger capital letters on their phones or something, and write only in lowercase letters. Just because yo…

bunch of chatgpt trolls on hackernews.
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