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It's not just hackers you need to worry about. I joined Facebook in 2020 - immediately secured, 2FA switched on and all the settings reviewed. I lost the acco

It's not just hackers you need to worry about. I joined Facebook in 2020 - immediately secured, 2FA switched on and all the settings reviewed. I lost the account in 2021 after I made the world's dullest post about the 12V system in a Nissan Leaf. In a Leaf car group. An automatic system determined my post breached community standards and required me to verify my account to continue using it. Fiiine, OK, I upload my driving licence. And it won't accept the upload. I try JPEG, PNG, different sizes, different browsers, different computers. Nothing seems to stick and after a certain number of attempts it says I have to wait a week to try again. After as couple of rounds of this the expiry deadline passes and my account is gone. I created another without hassle (and still treat FB as the contact method of last resort), but was still surprised at how easily they nuked a genuine user doing ordinary things.

SapporoChris 4y ago
You are a fringe case and Facebook(or any big corporation) does not care about you. Yes, what happened was not extremely unusual, and yes your recovery methods should have worked, but for whatever reasons, you're an fringe case. It didn't work, but it's simply not worth their while to improve the system for fringe cases. The profit isn't there. I sympathize, I have lost Amazon accounts under similar circumstances. I got so angry I stopped doing business with them for a year. But I found them useful enough I opened a new account even though I despise the company. I just don't purchase any digital assets from them anymore.
- noasaservice 4y ago
  > I just don't purchase any digital assets from them anymore. I never "purchase" (aka: rent) digital assets from anyone, unless I'm buying DRM-unencumbered open format media. I argue that any restriction outside of copyright and patent is not a sale. It is a form of a rental masquerading as a sale. I too have been bitten by shitty hardware remotely crippled, and bad software that was force-converted to cloud crap. Never again. If that means I stay firmly in the piracy school of though, so be it. I'm not going to be taken advantage of again.

SapporoChris 4y ago

You are a fringe case and Facebook(or any big corporation) does not care about you. Yes, what happened was not extremely unusual, and yes your recovery methods should have worked, but for whatever reasons, you're an fringe case. It didn't work, but it's simply not worth their while to improve the system for fringe cases. The profit isn't there. I sympathize, I have lost Amazon accounts under similar circumstances. I got so angry I stopped doing business with them for a year. But I found them useful enough I opened a new account even though I despise the company. I just don't purchase any digital assets from them anymore.

noasaservice 4y ago
> I just don't purchase any digital assets from them anymore. I never "purchase" (aka: rent) digital assets from anyone, unless I'm buying DRM-unencumbered open format media. I argue that any restriction outside of copyright and patent is not a sale. It is a form of a rental masquerading as a sale. I too have been bitten by shitty hardware remotely crippled, and bad software that was force-converted to cloud crap. Never again. If that means I stay firmly in the piracy school of though, so be it. I'm not going to be taken advantage of again.