posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?
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@parisba Corporations do not deserve our loyalty, version 10,000,000,0000.
@parisba Well you are dealing with a big-"tech"-company. What made you think thy care about you? What made you think that, unlike all other big-"tech"-companies, they would not be your enemy?
@parisba So sorry to hear what's happened, it sounds like the worst nightmare imaginable. This part particularly made me roll my eyes:
"I can’t even sign out of the blocked iCloud account because… it’s barred from the sign-out API, as far as I can tell."
FFS. That is terrible API design...
@parisba Off topic, but I took the opportunity to block all the accounts who blamed you for not being FOSS-enough.
@parisba I’ve sent your blog post to Tim Cook and Joz on twitter asking them to escalate ASAP
@parisba you don't have a backup of your data? Lesson learned I guess, hope that's the first thing you do when/if you regain access!
@parisba This is honestly nightmarish, I really hope you’ll be able to solve this somehow
@parisba
Microsoft did similar to me with changing their login stuff to one only, and caused me to be unable to access all my art and photos and more for years that was uploaded to their cloud storage but couldn’t now access & there was no one I could reach out to, to fix it. So much work, my life, lost.
Apple also makes it hard to download your work from the cloud and put it on any other hardware.
@parisba Sad story. I hope you get somewhere. Try writing to CNN or other big media, see if you can get some traction with the story.
But the lesson is - never trust your data or your life in any way to big corps. They are all uncaring and corrupt to some level or other. They do not give a flying fuck about customers, full stop, unless you are a billionaire or own a media company, or are an orange dictator.
@parisba I’ll see what if anything #aapl shareowners can do. I am terrified of this too as a personal and small business user (try to keep your spending on each separated to satisfy tax authorities, and not have all eggs in one fragile basket). So many things #aapl seemed to get right and see from the u/x. If this is how they use #ai,or just write code poorly for fraud alerts, it is not good.
@parisba have you made a complaint through apples complaint procedure (probably?). I don’t know if it will help but I learnt that complaints are handled separate to support escalation. After I was repeatedly told there was no one higher to escalate an issue too by chance instead of saying “escalate” I said i wanted to make a complaint and suddenly the support person who said there was no way to escalate further gave me a written contact address for complaints.
