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Reminds me when I got banned from Amazon for suspected fraud (had an old account, but deleted my email and number since it was in a lot of DB dumps). After I go
by b8 1y ago
Reminds me when I got banned from Amazon for suspected fraud (had an old account, but deleted my email and number since it was in a lot of DB dumps). After I got hired, I reached out to the guy in charge of the anti-fraud team at Amazon, and got unbanned. Emails to support etc. did nothing before I reached out internally (unbanned by 1am the next day).
- rmonvfer 1y agoThis is the level of epic I aspire to in life
- makeitdouble 1y agoExcept they're working at Amazon now.
- jcgrillo 1y agoseems like they could turn this into a lucrative side hustle "super premium secret support" embrace the technofascist feudalism!
- userbinator 1y agoThat's actually how a lot of laptop and phone schematics and related repair information gets leaked.
- danillonunes 1y agoNext level epic is hand your resignation letter right after you get unbanned. "My job here is done."
- daymanstep 1y agoAnd then banned again the next day.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoYes, but now they have free bananas
- naniwaduni 1y agotbh you could probably easily have enough gripes with Epic to do this too... but then you'd have to move to Wisconsin.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 1y agoAt least their headquarters are cool
- hansvm 1y agoInteresting. I still have a bricked phone from my onboarding at Google, and no internal people cared either. There's a tool I could have used to fix it, but it's accompanied by a message saying that if you use it without permission you'll be fired.
- xmprt 1y ago> accompanied by a message saying that if you use it without permission you'll be fired Probably why none of the internal people cared either. They didn't want to be the person on the line in case it was determined that the usage wasn't valid. I'm curious how you bricked it beyond repair though. Most devices have a way to enter a recovery/flash mode where you can upload your own firmware from the bootloader. And if you haven't unlocked the bootloader then I don't get how you could have bricked it unless there's an Android bug... which would have probably triggered a more serious look.
- odo1242 1y agoMost likely, the tool to upload the firmware from the bootloader required some sort of hardware signing key, which was present within the tool that he wasn’t supposed to use without permission.
- bongodongobob 1y agoA company the size of Google will for sure have it enrolled in MDM that prevents that.
- withinboredom 1y agoIt used to be, if you left a provider without paying for the device on time, they would remote-brick it, which would burn a fuse so it wouldn’t work anymore. I used this to get out of paying for the device once (Verizon), since I couldn’t use it anymore, why would I pay for it?
- hamandcheese 1y ago> There's a tool I could have used to fix it, but it's accompanied by a message saying that if you use it without permission you'll be fired. Sometimes I name certain APIs/function names/whatever with a "do_not_use_or_you_will_be_fired" suffix. Generally for hacks I don't want people to copy-pasta. I can't actually fire anyone, but it gets peoples attention (especially more junior folks).
- emmelaich 1y agoI'd love for this to happen for me. I lost my Amazon account because they miswrote my phone number - having a single leading digit invalid for international use. So couldn't use text MFA and my phone with the OTP app had died the previous day.
- carlmr 1y agoMy biggest Amazon annoyance. I'm often looking for some product, reading Reddit and other reviews. They usually link to amazon.com. Then it asks me to switch my profile to American/$. But then in order to order I need to switch back to Germany/€. It's just super cumbersome. Just let me view stuff from any region without switching profiles. If I order from that region you can tell me to switch profiles. But not just for viewing it. In the same vein. Why is there no, I want this thing, but from a German seller.
- Nition 1y agoReminds me of when someone links to a product on some (non-Amazon) website, I go there, it says "this is the US site, you should go to the [your country] site!", I click OK, and it takes me to the homepage.
- opan 1y agoI get this from the Nothing (phone) emails, the direct links in them go to the UK site, but if I let it redirect me to the US site, it's just the homepage. Extremely annoying.
- qwertox 1y agoWith Amazon it's even worse, if you click on an US Amazon product link on an Android device: My app is set to use Amazon in Germany. I click a link on a page and this opens the app. The app says it needs to switch to US. If I do that, I'm signed out of my German account and end up in an empty US account. I also think that I didn't even land on the product page afterwards. So I had to sign out of that US account and re-sign in into the German account to use the app normally. So I basically just can't see the link unless I long-press and select open in new tab.
- throwaway6612 1y agoThis is also infuriating for all those sites that take to their homepage when you log in instead of taking you back to the page you were viewing.
- 0xTJ 1y ago
- stevage 1y agoYep. I had no luck getting my Facebook account unblocked until 9 months later when by chance I did some work for them. Instantly unblocked.