Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse. Can you help? Email paris AT paris.id.au (and read on for the details). ❤️ Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID. I am writing this as a desperate measure.

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    The begging is sad too. “I’m special! I’m on your side! I’m one of youuuuuu!”

    The beast eats friend and foe alike.

  • plateee@piefed.socialEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Lest Android users (like myself) think we’re immune, Google has been known to nuke accounts too, leading to a similar outcome.

    I’ve been trying my best to get out of a “one account for all” mentality - photo backups are probably the #1 problem for me right now.

    I’ve got the local storage, but I’m not sure about exposing immich to the Internet for photos access when I’m not at home.

  • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
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    27 days ago

    It’s almost like having a single point of failure, putting your entire digital life and livelihood into the hands of a single uncaring corporation, is a bad idea or something. wild!

  • Zier@fedia.io
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    27 days ago

    Privacy should be guarded like gold, the royal jewels, priceless works of art, and democracy. Never give permission to others for control of it.

  • U7826391786239@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    27 days ago

    you don’t hear these horror stories often, but often enough to reinforce my conviction to never ever ever fucking ever buy a single apple product

    • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Also if you don’t have your date data under your control, you are at the mercy of some company.

    • ji59@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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      27 days ago

      But Google or Amazon isn’t better. I feel like people aren’t informed enough of these cases at all.

      • U7826391786239@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        27 days ago

        i’m not saying non-apple platforms are “good.” but they don’t have the same closed-circuit ecosystem business model that apple has. apple controls all their hardware and core proprietary software, which not only limits your third party options to whatever apple chooses to allow, but now you’ve got the “all your eggs in one basket” issue, which, if i were that person who’s been a loyal apple customer for 20+ years, having purchased tens of thousands of dollars of hardware to become deeply entrenched in this cultish…thing… only to lose it all for some stupid clerical bullshit…then, to me, yes–that’s objectively worse than google or anything else–even though those other options are fucking terrible also

        edit: let’s not forget to mention how stupidly overpriced apple crap is, while doing absolutely nothing that other platforms can’t do

        • ji59@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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          27 days ago

          I just wanted to say that switching to another big company isn’t solution. And even though they do not have such huge proportion of hardware devices, many people use Google or Amazon (or similar) to sign into many services or devices like security cameras, smart locks. And this really huge problem, when one company could lock you out of everything for no real reason. It should be much more regulated.

    • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      27 days ago

      I have an apple iphone but I back my photos up with Immich and passwords with firefox, Spotify instead of Apple music, Telegram, etc and I’m essentially isolated from the Apple ecosystem, if they lock me out of my account I lose pretty much nothing except the value of the phone