As banks and brokerages become increasingly enshitified and hostile toward Tor users so they can track you better, I quit logging in. I switch to paper or email statements when possible. But enshitification avoidance comes with penalties now.
Obviously I do not want to dance for them and step outside of my self-defensive environment (Tor) and login. Fuck them. The question is, what are all the ways to reset the clock on the abandonment flag?
For some checking accounts, you can write a paper check which the bank must honor, at which point it is regarded as activity. Not sure about a brokerage account. Maybe placing a trade but that’s a shitshow of another kind (having to download and install their app from their shitty website).
Is there any kind of analog way to mitigate the abandonment flag? Can I send a snail mail letter saying “I am alive and I have not forgotten about account XYZ”?
They have a fee for just about anything I could request that can be done on the web. But I suppose I could come up with something trivial like asking what my balance is. I like the idea of costing them by using the time of their call center as a penalty for trying to push me onto their website.