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Before going to extremes, many hacking victims try the usual routes to get customer service but quickly find out it seems impossible to reach someone at Facebook to help fix the problem. Same story with AI lockouts at Google. Even if you do have access to "someone at Google" good luck getting a clear answer of what happened or how to fix the issue.
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Whenever someone's used my email address, I've used password recovery and taken ownership of the account. It's amazing the number of systems which don't verify email before giving out an account. I've taken control of: Disney DropBox Redbox ...
Having a firstnamelastname address will subject you to a truly baffling level of false accounts and misaddressed email. The worst was probably the time I got emailed an excel sheet containing the names, personal details, and logins for an entire layer of middle managers for a small banking chain.
You're so right.
This is a big reason I'm looking forward to Apple's iCloud+ custom domain names. Outlook.com already supports custom domain names for paying customers in a very limited way, but hopefully Apple's move will light a fire under Gmail product management to offer this, perhaps through Google One.
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Side tangent, but ... thank you for Oculus. Seriously. I recently got a Quest 2, and its been life changing. It's just an incredible product. I used a DK1 and DK2 back when they came out and the Quest 2 is like night and day. Everything is so much better. No screen door, wireless, plug and play, etc. I honestly didn't think VR would get to this point so quickly. As for the life changing part, it's helping me work aro…
Should've gotten the Index instead, really. It works so much better and doesn't come with Facebook's walled garden.
Nobody is arguing that the Index isn't better (except for wireless-ness) but at 1/3 of the price, the Quest 2 is incredibly affordable and very, very nice.
And since you can play all the same PC VR games as the Index, plus Oculus-specific games, plus standalone Quest games... It's very versatile.
I have an OG Vive and just "upgraded" to the Quest 2 and it's hands-down better IMO.
I've upgraded my Quest 2 with some hand straps and the elite head strap, so that brings the price closer to 2/3 of the Index, and I still prefer it thanks to the standalone games and the wireless PC link. Not listening to the whine of the lighthouses is another small bonus.
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Having a firstnamelastname address will subject you to a truly baffling level of false accounts and misaddressed email. The worst was probably the time I got emailed an excel sheet containing the names, personal details, and logins for an entire layer of middle managers for a small banking chain.
> Having a firstnamelastname address will subject you to a truly baffling level of false accounts and misaddressed email First initial and last name it even worse. John, Jonathan, Julie, Jacob, James,and more all start with "J." I've gotten rental agreements, investment reports, appearance contracts, song demos, family pictures (not my family), and more.
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A basic sanity is let the email address on file as of yesterday, and for the past 10 years take the account back. Utterly insane that this is not possible.
Maybe the fear here is the divorce scenario? I could see someone being trusted for many years up until yesterday, when they suddenly become someone you don’t want in your account.
A new one shows up and takes over the account, permanently locking out the old one. All in 20 minutes?
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This is a horrible, rude, and insanely demeaning take. Formerly one of those developers, finally got fed up with the beast and left. I continue to do VR dev. 1. The internals were actually some of the most robust software I've ever seen. 2. People who worked on it originally were some of the best devs I've ever seen across multiple companies 3. They uniformly got burnt out by incredible harassment from people who hat…
Shouldn't have locked it behind a Facebook login then, eh? It could be the best thing since sliced bread, but it belongs on a trash heap as long as it requires a facebook login.
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Whenever someone's used my email address, I've used password recovery and taken ownership of the account. It's amazing the number of systems which don't verify email before giving out an account. I've taken control of: Disney DropBox Redbox ...
Not exactly the same, but some time ago some woman from Texas changed her email on Netflix to mine, seemingly without confirmation. My email address has a very particular custom domain that can't be explained with a typo, and I don't know anyone in Texas. Very weird. Netflix support was like, whatever, why do you care? Still puzzled about why and how that happened.
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Side tangent, but ... thank you for Oculus. Seriously. I recently got a Quest 2, and its been life changing. It's just an incredible product. I used a DK1 and DK2 back when they came out and the Quest 2 is like night and day. Everything is so much better. No screen door, wireless, plug and play, etc. I honestly didn't think VR would get to this point so quickly. As for the life changing part, it's helping me work aro…
Should've gotten the Index instead, really. It works so much better and doesn't come with Facebook's walled garden.
I honestly do not understand why any sentient person would have anything to do with Facebook at this point, VR headsets or not. It is just an awful company, period.
If fb didn't exist tomorrow, I wouldn't have a way to contact my family and friends. It would be panic. I also LOVE my quest 2. FB isn't perfect but hating it is getting boring now.