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Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by sunaookami »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #17
rlayton2 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This happens regularly (perhaps not frequently) to people with their Gmail account. Google's AI says no, and there are very few people reporting successfully navigating the system to get their account back. This is one of the anti-google arguments, the other main one being they kill big projects all the time. You are right though, it can be crippling, and this thinking part of your personal (and business) risk profil…

I lost access to a Google account almost a decade ago; trying to get it back was one massive Kafka trap. Every few years I go back and try navigating the Kafka trap again hoping against hope for better results. But I’m still locked out. It’s particularly frustrating because IMAP is setup for it into another google account, so I can still send and receive email from the address but I’m fully locked out of the service.…

Just create a Hacker News post and hope it goes viral and then some Google employees will unlock it for you ;)

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by wiseowise »

duskwuff wrote: post #29
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #7

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People send each other porn on LinkedIn?

Given how many people are on LinkedIn, would you doubt that women on the platform sometimes get sexually harassed in DMs, e.g. by people sending them porn?

Yes.

Unless it’s a burner or malicious account, I can hardly imagine someone being that courageous to sign death warrant to their career if woman decides to call them out and it goes viral.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb »

zero-sharp wrote: post #21
r3trohack3r wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I lost access to a Google account almost a decade ago; trying to get it back was one massive Kafka trap. Every few years I go back and try navigating the Kafka trap again hoping against hope for better results. But I’m still locked out. It’s particularly frustrating because IMAP is setup for it into another google account, so I can still send and receive email from the address but I’m fully locked out of the service.…

How did you lose the account? Was there a reason from Google?

I once had a functional bug where a MFA recovery email would receive the token, but the system would flag any further steps as ‘suspicious activity’. I also had an active gmail session via thunderbird, so I could easily have proven my claims legitimacy if required. Alas, there is no concept of support at google.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by smcin »

junon wrote: post #51
zahlman wrote: post #42

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YouTube refused to let me create an account (after some trial and error) with the word "angry" in the channel name.

I have "angry" in my channel name, anecdotally. So it could have been something else.

Depends, what date did you create that channel, they may have changed rules since.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by inemesitaffia »

chillfox wrote: post #9
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #7

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People send each other porn on LinkedIn?

Based on the number of guys who think LinkedIn is a dating site I don't see why there wouldn't be people who think it's a porn sharing site.

Every site that allows commutations will be used as a dating site.

Sometimes you might be identified on the site and then communicated with on another channel.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by junon »

smcin wrote: post #64
junon wrote: post #51

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I have "angry" in my channel name, anecdotally. So it could have been something else.

Depends, what date did you create that channel, they may have changed rules since.

Probably two years ago or so.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by alexey-salmin »

ketzo wrote: post #43
scblock wrote: post #37

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Citation needed.

The NYT published a very well-reported case (two cases, actually) of Google doing this more than two years ago. This is not a hypothetical -- this is already happening. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...

A possibility of loosing access to a 20 years old Google account is quite disturbing. I know it's possible to setup a sync of Google drive to a local NAS, I wonder if the same can be done with Gmail archives. Then there's a problem of loosing access to all linked accounts on other services. What can be done about those, switching them to Proton mail.preemptively? Life without SSO is annoying.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by calgoo »

alexey-salmin wrote: post #67
ketzo wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The NYT published a very well-reported case (two cases, actually) of Google doing this more than two years ago. This is not a hypothetical -- this is already happening. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...

A possibility of loosing access to a 20 years old Google account is quite disturbing. I know it's possible to setup a sync of Google drive to a local NAS, I wonder if the same can be done with Gmail archives. Then there's a problem of loosing access to all linked accounts on other services. What can be done about those, switching them to Proton mail.preemptively? Life without SSO is annoying.

You can setup a forwarder that sends the email to another account, or just use a sync / download script/app.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by vishnugupta »

zero-sharp wrote: post #6

I've always wondered about this. What happens if one of the big tech companies makes a mistake and closes your account? LinkedIn is pretty important nowadays when searching for work. Would you be able to make a new account? If not, that seems like a pretty big deal. Same concern with your email, or any of the other big services that we usually depend on. If I just suddenly lost my gmail, I would probably lose access…

> If I just suddenly lost my gmail, I would probably lose access to external accounts and other important data, which could be crippling.

Exactly, the downside is too high. Which is why I migrated to my own domain + Fastmail.

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