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Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

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Re: Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

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Post by jabroni_salad »

yau8edq12i wrote: post #344
initplus wrote: post #254

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Don’t want to sound like I’m victim blaming the author. But I can tell you exactly the issue with their account: registering with an email on a self hosted .xyz domain. Using sketchy tld’s is just asking for this kind of trouble. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400

"Sketchy tld"? Even google's parent company uses it for its corporate website.

I babysit a few corporate mailfilters and have more spam from .xyz than from all other TLDs combined. I dont block on that (most get disappeared due to 'new domain') but that's the cohort all .xyz pages are sharing.

xyz has been accomodating to scammers ever since its inception. After a decade I think we can say that it is on purpose.

Re: Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

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Post by lapcat »

rchaud wrote: post #393
lapcat wrote: post #314

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This is utterly false: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnBsIAiZfFc You could always edit artwork in iTunes. Indeed, you could import albums from your own CDs and not even use the iTunes Music Store at all.

The video you linked is from 2015, almost a decade after the time period I referenced in my comment.

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Re: Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

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Post by rtaylorgarlock »

everforward wrote: post #215
javajosh wrote: post #211

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>smells like a class action suit You (and others like you) need to meticulously record and assess the financial damage the lockout does to you.

Do I bill them for my time hourly, or as a cost plus project?

Can't be that hard to justify in some way for a filing. The industrials and big commercial guys do this all. the. time. I even bet there's bunches of SLA templates out there with the right litigious lingo to ease the filing.

Re: Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

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Post by rtaylorgarlock »

epolanski wrote: post #285

Been locked for almost 3 months between November 2022 and January 2023. Apple is crazy. My iPad with the authenticator broke, and even though I filled endless forms, verified emails and phone number they just keep sending me emails I was gonna be called by support at a date 3 weeks away. Got no call, restarted the procedure. Got called in January, and it was an automatic voicemail or something.. I literally couldn't…

Same sentiment here. Actively working to reduce dependence on anything FAANG.

Re: Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

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Post by Animats »

CydeWeys wrote: post #349
EasyMark wrote: post #327

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If you use your own domain, open source software, and backup often they can't lock you up forever like Google/Microsoft/Apple tho

You're missing my point that you're still beholden to the domain name registrar that manages your domain name on your behalf. That account getting permanently locked out will have all the same bad consequences for your online life as your Google account getting locked out. And keep in mind that being a domain name registrar is a low margin business (typically they're only grossing a few bucks per domain per year, bef…

The backup for that is a registered trademark on the domain. Recovery via ICANN procedures is slow, though.

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Post by zac23or »

trogdor wrote: post #377
zac23or wrote: post #353

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Apple is like a religion. An Apple user told me “Apple never makes mistakes” during the Antennagate. I never forgot that, and I try not to have conversations with Apple fans after that.

>An Apple user told me “Apple never makes mistakes” during the Antennagate. I never forgot that, and I try not to have conversations with Apple fans after that. Someone made an absurd statement to you about Apple, so you have spent the last fourteen years trying to avoid conversations with people who like Apple products?

> Someone made ...

This example demonstrated to me that Apple is a religion, after many other examples. Try reading Apple's blogs, it's crazy.

I recommend not trying to talk to extremists in any area. Your life will be much better.

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Post by TeMPOraL »

GoblinSlayer wrote: post #277
TeMPOraL wrote: post #240

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I would agree with you if there actually was anything different in a suspicious way about those logins. There weren't. Same devices, same ISP, same browsers, not even an OS update in between. Just one day, few days ago, out of the blue, Facebook decided to pop up a conformation request, offering no alternative to confirming from "another device", and that's with them knowing (or at least having that information avail…

That's the reason to setup 2fa, because otherwise monopolies can legally kick you. Well, they can kick you anyway, because they are monopolies.

2FA makes it easier, not harder, to lose access to your account though.

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Post by adamomada »

gamblor956 wrote: post #350
sottol wrote: post #248

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And unlike, say, Samsung Ultrabooks or even Microsoft Surfaces, Macs last a really long time. My kids are using my 2011 MacBook Air and 2009 iMac and they still work, even the battery still kinda hangs in. They've had a few rough years 2016-2019 with the butterfly keyboards but I don't know many current manufacturers with products as solid long term.

My Surface Pro 3 still gets 90% battery life. My HP hybrid tablet, now over 15 years old, still works (when plugged in). My dad's IBM Thinkpad, older than most people currently on this website, still works. Apple people like to claim that Apples last longer than their competitors, but that simply isn't true. Most people, myself included, can't tell you what Dell or HP support is like because we've never had to use th…

I hope you can see that what you wrote can’t possibly be true.

Surface people, HP people, or Thinkpad people have all had to contact support at times as well. Is it more or is it less than Apple, is the question (and isn’t answered)

Re: Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

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Post by antiframe »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #208
phantomathkg wrote: post #138

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I would expand to cover not only Apple, but Google and Microsoft.

You don't have a requirement to have an email account to login to Windows. MS is pushing it hard, (deceptive trend in big software) but the user can still push back.

I don't know if its still true today, but last time I setup a macOS machine (2020), it didn't require, but pushed, an Apple ID. My Pixel phone I setup this February also didn't require, but pushed, a Google account. I think iOS did require an AppleID, though.
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