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

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

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Post by rvnx »

zygentoma wrote: post #615
rationalist wrote: post #557

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using a separate email address for each site is smart, but creating a separate email account for each site is going to be very tedious, and I imagine Google, Yahoo, etc are going to stop you very quickly after you've opened 20+ accounts with the same phone number. (Use a catch-all to have different email addresses for different sites, because when one gets hacked, then the damage is limited.)

Google allows email suffices a la my account+anything@gmail.com. So you can use different email addresses for different accounts while having only one Gmail account.

Little trick: You can also randomly insert dots in your email address, a bit more stealth and compatible with more sites :)

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Post by hopelite »

Does anyone know if in the USA you could simply use small claims court on every individual device and service to get likely default judgements against Apple and then when they are unlikely to pay up, get a judgement against Apple and make a big deal about strolling into a store or even HQ to take Cook’s own devices out of his office or maybe just seize his corporate jet and auction it off?

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Post by markus_zhang »

sangeeth96 wrote: post #177

This just makes me extremely concerned for the iCloud transition I’ve been making. It shouldn’t be this easy to perform a user-disruptive action from the support/ops side. I would think they’d have visibility to some sort of “reputation” metric, given the age/purchase history etc even if anonymized. I can understand this happening if it was a freshly created account topped up with a sus gift card but it’s unacceptabl…

A lot of fraud bans are just automated in my company. Apple probably outsources Customer service to the lowest salary places they could dump it to, and call it a day.

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Post by rvnx »

rambojohnson wrote: post #610
zelphirkalt wrote: post #603

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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.

I wonder how many users are bots farming for karma nowadays.

If you are launching a startup, it’s very worthy to push your product on the HN homepage.

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

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Post by colechristensen »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #556

The untapped answer is litigation. Call a lawyer and file against Apple. It may take several business days, and cost $$$$ but it will absolutely light a fire at Apple and get the attention of many-a-human. And if they ignore it, well, maybe a class action lawsuit awaits.

And, importantly, go through with the lawsuit. Figure out how to quantify damages to yourself by being deprived of access to your account so even if they restore access you can continue the suit.

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Post by paulsutter »

Waterluvian wrote: post #577
rvnx wrote: post #523

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Lot of arrogant people here who think they are safe and better than anybody and blame OP. It is totally normal in today’s world to depend on cloud services and reasonably difficult to do without it. In China: no WeChat you are practically dead. Here try to join meetings without account, try to send a message on WhatsApp without account, etc… a lot can go wrong very fast. What if you used your Apple account as SSO to…

I’ve interpreted it as a sort of head-in-sand coping mechanism for those low-likelihood, high-consequence events people feel powerless over. It’s less distressing to be powerless if you decide that the real issue was a fault by the victim and not a powerlessness you have in common with the victim.

Surprised at the downvotes to your excellent comment.

Good insight - that people dunk on the author as a cope to help the dunker feel less powerless

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Post by chihuahua »

crtasm wrote: post #431
viraptor wrote: post #260

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> If enough of these horror stories are publicized, people will learn to never buy/redeem Apple gift cards You'd think so. Yet, the stories of PayPal locking up payouts to surprised people keep coming every year - and people still use them.

I thought I'd buy Cory Doctrow's Enshittification ebook direct from his website. Surprised to be redirected to Paypal with no other option.

Doctorow has enshittified himself.

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Post by markus_zhang »

nabla9 wrote: post #452
novoreorx wrote: post #386

If I were the person at Apple in charge of this kind of matter, I would ignore this case, just as I do for other regular people. Everyone should be equally not cared for by Apple. That's how Apple sucks in a way I can accept myself still using their product.

Agreed. If the only way to get your digital property back is a public plea to your Lord, that's called feudalism. Everyone should be treated fairly, not only those who can get their public pleas heard.

Feudalism never left. The only change is that the majority of the serfs don’t work on land anymore, and we have the freedoms o switch lords easily.

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Post by shermantanktop »

rambojohnson wrote: post #610
zelphirkalt wrote: post #603

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Responses claiming that a post is AI are often more visible and annoying than the possibly-but-probably-not-AI posts they are complaining about.
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