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An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card (www.techradar.com)
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An Apple fan who has spent “nearly 30 years as a loyal customer” says they’ve been “permanently” locked out of their Apple Account due to what might be the overzealous actions of Apple’s automated anti-fraud system. It’s left them locked out of “20 years of digital life,” and it all started with the seemingly straightforward purchase of an Apple gift card.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

If it's not in your hands in an open format it's not yours.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 22 points 17 hours ago

The Terraria dev who had his Google account locked out because of whatever bullshit.

Don't ever put anything secure/critical in places that aren't yours.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago

Pretty much, I've been working on reducing my dependence on big tech companies by self hosting or using open source where possible. While impossible to do fully, at least if I lose an account things are either backed up or I'm only losing a small amount of my data.