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Google, especially Google Corp, is very much that way too. One of my users is currently getting a fair bit of spam because a spammer figured out that if they send a message with envelope sender @google.com, rcpt @gmail.com, google.com MX will accept it, then bounce it with NoSuchUser and gmail will accept it. I spent an hour yesterday looking for a way to contact Google about it, but couldn't find anything. Made hard…
It's important to have your own website, so you can post updates there. Use Meta to let people know that there is an update on the site.
Now it's an expert level knowledge, especially amongst younger generation. Private websites are nearly extinct, thanks to (and not only) Google and SEO cancer.
Corporations like Meta are scared of people taking control over their own data, so they put lots of effort into making the content creation process as brainless as possible.
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Gotcha. Don't suppose you could help me with my Instagram account? :) If pogue972 on Instagram suddenly got a reset email or something, I definitely wouldn't ask any questions.
To be fair, he just said it's a fireable offense-- presumably (and according to the article he linked) to use the tools for people you don't know at all, not just to take money for it. (It's probably easier for Meta to prove an employee used the recovery tool than to prove they received money for it.) I do hope you get your account back, though.
Tbh, I'd be curious if it's even recoverable and what triggered the ban. I just got an email out of the blue asking me to fill out a captcha, reply to an SMS and send a selfie. I did all that and just got a reply I had violated "community guidelines" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Since it was a private account I never posted anything on, I was racking my brain what could have possibly got me flagged. All I did was reply to pics of ppl's pets (and sometimes cute girlies). Definitely nothing abusive.
From what I've read, the SMS was used just to automatically block any new account you make.
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The internet has been like this forever. In the 90s I was banned from hotmail for having an inappropriate email address because my last name is Cummings. No recourse for some idiotic regex filter.
What happens if your last name is Cummings and your home address is in Penistone, South Yorkshire, England? Or perhaps in the quaint fishing town of Dildo, Newfoundland.
They must think it reflects the broader reality of how they treat everyone else.
Google, especially Google Corp, is very much that way too. One of my users is currently getting a fair bit of spam because a spammer figured out that if they send a message with envelope sender @google.com, rcpt @gmail.com, google.com MX will accept it, then bounce it with NoSuchUser and gmail will accept it. I spent an hour yesterday looking for a way to contact Google about it, but couldn't find anything. Made hard…
Along the same lines, I think organizations shouldn't be allowed to send out email but not receive email at the same address, e.g. noreply@. That's just hostile in general.
It's not just Meta. All big tech companies (including Amazon, if you are a vendor) have gotten infamous for basically only getting a human to intervene with automated moderation or outsourced lowest-effort moderation if one raises a big-enough stink on social media or manages to secure a court judgement, but even that isn't foolproof these days. Twitter has recently gotten under fire for ignoring German court orders.
Yep. It's why the only way most people get their hacked YouTube channels back is by begging the Team YouTube account on Twitter for help, and hoping enough people bother the staff there that something actually gets fixed. If you're a popular creator that doesn't have much of a social media following, friends at Google or lots of lawyer money, RIP any chance of getting your channel back before/after it gets banned due…
Don't y'all see? Every other day a story comes out about a centralized platform either: 1) Extorting for money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887 2) Canceling accounts: https://www.eff.org/pages/when-knowing-someone-meta-only-way... 3) Has their algorithms choose what you see and hear: https://x.com/i/grok/share/NwPcWVxZiHQytvGs8MONRdpCi 4) Deplatforms you anytime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deplatform…
we need to move away from centralized platforms asap
For now it’s already extremely full-featured, but still only web developers will be able to use it: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
If you do give it a try, come back here and write about your experience.
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Amusingly Firebase auth (a Google product) has such a bad reputation with GMail that standard procedure is to bring your own mail service. Or your password-reset emails are binned.
Firebase technicians allegedly attempted to contact gmail support, but found that gmail did not have an inbound support contact and thus the firebase technicians were unable to rectify their issue.* *This entire post is fabricated satire. Though, I would not be shocked if it were true.