Derek Ross on nostr

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@Derek Ross 1765691262

"After nearly 30 years as a loyal customer, authoring technical books on Apple’s own programming languages (Objective-C and Swift), and spending tens upon tens upon tens of thousands of dollars on devices, apps, conferences, and services, I have been locked out of my personal and professional digital life with no explanation and no recourse."

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

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That seems extreme for trying to use a gift card. Odd.

Geektoshi · 14w

Sounds like he should have been running his own server.

this is so insane.. ..closed proprietary systems are pure evil

Kudzai Kutukwa · 14w

Not your keys, not your notes.

Adam Dunlap ⚡️ · 14w

Wild. Cant trust these tech companies. I was auto-banned from X twice AFTEE MUSK TOOK OVER (maybe a legacy thing leftover at the time, it was early on). Nothing I did violated the terms, and since then Musk himself has posted things that are the same things I said. In the effort to scale, I guess th...

The Fishcake (nostr.build) · 14w

In my experience, there is usually more to the story than people share in their pleas. Sometimes mistakes like these happen for sure, and I hope that some Apple folks in the know can help to resolve it.

Same happened to me on Amazon. Gift card, and then they just banned my whole account. The only way to access support is from the web interface of the banned account. No audible books, no Kindle books I've purchased, even my gift card balance disappeared. But it allowed me to discover libro.fm as a...

At my last job we had an iPhone & 2 iPads tied to the same apple account. We used the phone to text customers. Apple decided we were spamming people. Account locked. Couldn't log out of the devices, get updates, install new apps etc. The device became paperweights basically, no way to recover them, ...

John sati · 14w

Big tech tirannie since 2020 more and more people get banned, blocked, lose access to their (wel the tyrants) data, only FOSS platforms will survive

Yikes, that sucks. Hopefully he takes the advice to visit Apple HQ and resolve the situation in person.

Guy Van Sanden · 14w

Moral of the story, don't put your data in things you don't control and you don't actually own devices locked into cloud crap

𝖘𝖊𝖙𝖙𝖔𝖘𝖍𝖎 𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖎 · 14w

F Not your drive, not your files 😔

Indeed, self-hosting and use Linux as an OS.

Self-hosting isn't perfect, but these days many projects make it much easier. You get full control over your data, better privacy, and no risk of losing everything because a company locks your account.

DigitWigth · 14w

Hope he can get is data back, and then change to GrapheneOS and self host 😁

fascinating story. as someone who studies (presumed) false positives like these, thank you for sharing.

Crypto Analysis Dynamo · 14w

Yes. This is the number one problem with centralised platforms, deplatforming.