I was testing a temporary number service for WhatsApp when I received the popup below. Temporary numbers can be useful for disposable accounts that do not contain private data. However, you should not use one for an account you plan to keep long-term or that contains sensitive information.
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Josh 🌯
@josh@sideofburritos.social
mastodon 4.7.3Security, Tech, and YouTube.
Built Yellowball (https://yellowball.fm) — dont' just host your podcast. own it.
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And so it begins…
I had a great time chatting with Jay and Michael about a bunch of different topics. The link is below if you’d like to give it a listen. Thanks for having me on the show!
I got this email this morning, and I guess this is now a marketing point? Whether the FCC labels you a “trusted consumer router”? I wonder what requirements they met, or more likely, how much that cost them.
For context, I don’t use NETGEAR. Just an old account email.
Replying to
@metr0pl3x@grapheneos.social It’s pretty unfortunate it came to that. You’re basically left with either giving up your identity and hoping for access, or losing the account entirely. It doesn’t even seem like account age factors in. It's just a gamble whether you hit the right decision tree in the unattended process or not and get access back.
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@metr0pl3x@grapheneos.social That's wild. Did someone report your account or something to trigger that? Or are they actually going after accounts that don't have a full name and a picture of a face attached?
RE: @simplebits@mastodon.social
It's amazing how often you can reference 1984 and have it be applicable.
There's nothing like the illusion of choice when it comes to financial institutions and privacy. Of course, it's never opt-in, it's always opt-out (for the ones you can limit).
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@metr0pl3x@grapheneos.social it's wild that it's 0 or 1, absolutely no middle ground. It also makes me wonder if it's also a method to extort people into paying for Premium. Pay for Premium and you get an extra layer of “protecting your profile”. Don't pay, and any report gets you a permanent ban. It's a very “Google” style way of handling things. Account locked for X reason, automated appeal failed, nothing you can do.