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I have a rule of only ever using Edge on Windows with no plugins (does Edge even have that?) when interacting with Google or Amazon account services, to avoid t
by gtourist 4y ago
I have a rule of only ever using Edge on Windows with no plugins (does Edge even have that?) when interacting with Google or Amazon account services, to avoid this "your account has been locked due to suspicious activity" nonsense, knowing that it only results in a hopeless black hole of canned email responses asking for information to unlock the account, only for it to remain locked after said information is provided.
When using your accounts, never use Firefox, since it's down to like 2% marketshare, and automatically suspicious, and never use privacy-oriented plugins like uBlock, which suspiciously alter how and how much your browser communicates with these sites. Also never buy anything online late at night (like after 1 AM). Apparently that's suspicious, since a lot of fraudsters are international.
It's incredible that these shitty ML hueristic systems are the best these "genius" FAANG developers, who get paid $150-300k a year, can come up with up. I love it when they or their loved ones get ensnared by these systems, like the Googler who threw a Twittertantrum when they locked his and his husband's Google Photos (or whatever they call it) account for "suspicious activity," and they lost thousands of photos. Pure lifefuel:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24791357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24791357
- donmcronald 4y ago> It's incredible that these shitty ML hueristic systems are the best these "genius" FAANG developers, who get paid $150-300k a year, can come up with up. I think it gets personalized / fingerprinted fairly quickly TBH. For example, I have 2 identical (Linux + Firefox + uBlock Origin) VMs that I use over the same VPN connection. One of them gets almost no captcha challenges and the other gets them continuously. My subjective experience is that it's based on what you're searching for on Google or maybe due to hitting sites that Google might have flagged as malicious (guilt by association). It's tough to tell, but it sure feels like there's some type of cumulative score based on activity.