#changeofaddress — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #changeofaddress, aggregated by home.social.
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The 8 weeks before your move matter more than the move itself. Most people
start 2 weeks out and lose the easiest mover-booking window, miss USPS
forwarding lead time, and skip filing IRS Form 8822 entirely.Sourced from USPS, IRS, FMCSA, and Census Bureau data — not aggregator
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Addendum: On Sep. 8 I asked Condé Nast to delete my data: https://federate.social/@jik/113104350128502899
They finally got back to me today, nearly 2 months later, with this response: "Your request cannot be completed at this time. inactive subscriber"
I believe the technical term for describing this response is "bullshit."
That I am an inactive subscriber shouldn't prevent them from deleting my data. The whole reason why I asked them to is because I'm not an active subscriber so they don't need it!
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Addendum to my #ChangeOfAddress 🧵: I had no trouble changing my address at spirit.com (#SpiritAirlines), but afterward they started spamming me at the new address. This isn't surprising; several sites did that. What's different is that when I try to unsub from the Spirit #spam, it claims I'm already unsubscribed.
After navigating their live chat for 20+ minutes about this, they opened an escalation ticket about it. The confirmation email says it could take up to 30 days for them to respond. 😡 -
Mission accomplished! I've reviewed the entire contents of my password manager and anonymized my addresses wherever it was possible and appropriate.
Final statistics:
I started with 1,262 items, of which I deleted 465 (37%)!
I skipped 120 items of the wrong type, e.g., secure notes.
I skipped 292 more items with good reasons not to anonymize .
I anonymized 386 (76%) of the remaining 505. I was unable to anonymize 118 (23%) for various reasons.
#infosec #privacy
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Over at https://tripplite.eaton.com/, there's no way to edit the username / email address on your account. They've buried the "Delete account" button on the "Password" tab of the account settings pop-up for some inexplicable reason. And if you click the "Delete account" button, the message telling you that your request was submitted successfully is inserted onto a different tab of the pop-up so you don't see it unless you switch to that tab. 🤦
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https://transunion.com/ continues its pattern of being, like all the other credit reporting agencies, the worst. They sent me the below email after I updated my email address. One problem: it says I should call them if I didn't update my password, which I didn't, I updated my email address!
Furthermore, if you try to change your username and your password at the same time on the account settings page, it falsely claims that the old password you entered is incorrect. 🤦
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Trying to change my email address at https://discountfilters.com/ was a disaster, but if you read my blog you already know they're shady (https://blog.kamens.us/2024/01/11/buyer-beware-discountfilters-com/).
I tried changing my address. They claimed they were sending a verification email but it never arrived.
I then tried logging out and logging back in with the new address. They sent me an email with a link to "access your account." I clicked that link and it logged me into a NEW ACCOUNT with that address. 🤦
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(https://caremark.com/ idiocy continued)
So I changed my email address, and then logged out and tried to log back in again, and I _still_ need to log in with my old email address, even though it is no longer displayed anywhere in my account settings. How do you even break things this badly? 🤦
Also, after I changed my username and email address, they sent me the attached email message. *sigh*
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https://caremark.com/ is a doozy. My password manager said to log in using my email address as my username, which worked fine. When I went to update my email address in my profile, I saw that there was a separate username field with a random number as my username. I changed the username to something else, and logged me out and told me to log back in with my new username. Which... didn't work. I still had to log in with my email address.
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https://vimeo.com/ slightly limits what your account can do until you've verified your account email address. After changing my account email address to an #AnonAddy address, I've requested a verification email three times, and none of them have arrived.
EDIT: The emails never arrived, but I opened a support ticket and their support people marked my address as verified instead of fixing the address verification problem. 🤷
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https://vimeo.com/ slightly limits what your account can do until you've verified your account email address. After changing my account email address to an #AnonAddy address, I've requested a verification email three times, and none of them have arrived.
EDIT: The emails never arrived, but I opened a support ticket and their support people marked my address as verified instead of fixing the address verification problem. 🤷
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https://vimeo.com/ slightly limits what your account can do until you've verified your account email address. After changing my account email address to an #AnonAddy address, I've requested a verification email three times, and none of them have arrived.
EDIT: The emails never arrived, but I opened a support ticket and their support people marked my address as verified instead of fixing the address verification problem. 🤷
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https://vimeo.com/ slightly limits what your account can do until you've verified your account email address. After changing my account email address to an #AnonAddy address, I've requested a verification email three times, and none of them have arrived.
EDIT: The emails never arrived, but I opened a support ticket and their support people marked my address as verified instead of fixing the address verification problem. 🤷
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https://vimeo.com/ slightly limits what your account can do until you've verified your account email address. After changing my account email address to an #AnonAddy address, I've requested a verification email three times, and none of them have arrived.
EDIT: The emails never arrived, but I opened a support ticket and their support people marked my address as verified instead of fixing the address verification problem. 🤷
#Vimeo
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https://verizon.com/ has separate "User ID" and "Primary email" fields, which seems silly since the User ID is required to be an email address.
You have to change them separately even if they are both the same thing and you want them to be the same thing again after you change them.
Verification works for the User ID just fine. But I requested several verification emails for the Primary email, and none of them arrived. 🤦
EDIT: Finally showed up 10 minutes later.
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In the hour and 6 minutes since I changed my email address at https://uber.com/, they've sent me 10 identical "Jonathan, your Uber account email was updated" email messages, spaced apart by 4–11 minutes, all to my old email address rather than the new one.
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https://ticketmaster.com/ let me enter a new email address, sent a code to my old email that I needed to enter to confirm the address change, then after all that popped up a message saying "We have temporarily disabled email address changes, if it's an emergency contact customer service" and reverted the address change. 🤦
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https://starbucks.com/ said the password in my password manager was invalid, so I did a password reset. When prompted to choose a new password I entered my current one, which it accepted and said my password had been changed. Once again, however, it wouldn't let me log in. So I went through the password reset process again, and this time specified a new password. Again, it said it worked. Again, it wouldn't let me log in with the newly changed password. 🤷
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This is what happened when I tried to change my email address for my #PlaystationNetwork (#PSN) account to an #AnonAddy email address. I don't know whether this is specific to AnonAddy addresses or whether the address change workflow is broken in general. 🤷 I've said it before in this thread, but it bears repeating: web sites should not be blocking people from using anonymized email addresses for security and privacy reasons.
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This is what happened when I tried to change my email address for my #PlaystationNetwork (#PSN) account to an #AnonAddy email address. I don't know whether this is specific to AnonAddy addresses or whether the address change workflow is broken in general. 🤷 I've said it before in this thread, but it bears repeating: web sites should not be blocking people from using anonymized email addresses for security and privacy reasons.
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This is what happened when I tried to change my email address for my #PlaystationNetwork (#PSN) account to an #AnonAddy email address. I don't know whether this is specific to AnonAddy addresses or whether the address change workflow is broken in general. 🤷 I've said it before in this thread, but it bears repeating: web sites should not be blocking people from using anonymized email addresses for security and privacy reasons.
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This is what happened when I tried to change my email address for my #PlaystationNetwork (#PSN) account to an #AnonAddy email address. I don't know whether this is specific to AnonAddy addresses or whether the address change workflow is broken in general. 🤷 I've said it before in this thread, but it bears repeating: web sites should not be blocking people from using anonymized email addresses for security and privacy reasons.
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This is what happened when I tried to change my email address for my #PlaystationNetwork (#PSN) account to an #AnonAddy email address. I don't know whether this is specific to AnonAddy addresses or whether the address change workflow is broken in general. 🤷 I've said it before in this thread, but it bears repeating: web sites should not be blocking people from using anonymized email addresses for security and privacy reasons.
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(#TransAmerica security theater continued)
After all that, they didn't require me to click a link sent to my new email address to confirm the change and prove that I had access to that mailbox! They did all that crap, and didn't do the one real, substantive security thing that should be done as part of an email address change. Unbelievable.
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#TransAmerica wins the prize for the worst pointless #SecurityTheater I've encountered while anonymizing my online account email addresses.
I had to:
* enter an emailed code and answer a security question to log in;
* agree to new terms, then enter another emailed code;
* answer another security question to get to my profile page; and
* type my new email address instead of pasting it (the "Don't Fuck With Paste" extension fixed that!).
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Not to be outdone by Intuit, https://salary.com/ said on login that my password was expired and had to be changed (bogus!), but then it wouldn't allow me to change my password because the password change form enforces current password validation rules (must have a special character) on my _old_ password even though it was created so long ago that those rules were not in effect.
I had to do "Forgot password?" to change it.
Why are software developers so bad at their jobs?
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Over at https://intuit.com/, which is notoriously bad at account management, after I changed my email address the page displaying it asserted that the new address was "Verified" even before I clicked on the link in the confirmation email. Browsing away from the page and back to it didn't change this. It only changed to "Not verified" when I used the browser refresh button to reload the page. Such an easy thing to get right, so embarrassing that they got it wrong.
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I tried to change my email address at https://pushover.net. It said it was sending a verification email, but it never arrived. I clicked the link to generate another verification email, and it again said it was sending it, but it never arrived. Instead, I received a "Welcome to Pushover!" email to my _old_ email address, the one I'm trying to change. *sigh*
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Over at #Cisco #OpenDNS (https://opendns.com/), when I enter a new login email address, it says it's sending me an email message to confirm the change, and indeed it does send the email, but clicking the confirmation link doesn't work. I tested this with non-anonymized addresses, not just an #AnonAddy address, so apparently this functionality is simply broken. Way to go, Cisco!
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Over at #Cisco #OpenDNS (https://opendns.com/), when I enter a new login email address, it says it's sending me an email message to confirm the change, and indeed it does send the email, but clicking the confirmation link doesn't work. I tested this with non-anonymized addresses, not just an #AnonAddy address, so apparently this functionality is simply broken. Way to go, Cisco!
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Over at #Cisco #OpenDNS (https://opendns.com/), when I enter a new login email address, it says it's sending me an email message to confirm the change, and indeed it does send the email, but clicking the confirmation link doesn't work. I tested this with non-anonymized addresses, not just an #AnonAddy address, so apparently this functionality is simply broken. Way to go, Cisco!
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Over at #Cisco #OpenDNS (https://opendns.com/), when I enter a new login email address, it says it's sending me an email message to confirm the change, and indeed it does send the email, but clicking the confirmation link doesn't work. I tested this with non-anonymized addresses, not just an #AnonAddy address, so apparently this functionality is simply broken. Way to go, Cisco!
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Over at #Cisco #OpenDNS (https://opendns.com/), when I enter a new login email address, it says it's sending me an email message to confirm the change, and indeed it does send the email, but clicking the confirmation link doesn't work. I tested this with non-anonymized addresses, not just an #AnonAddy address, so apparently this functionality is simply broken. Way to go, Cisco!
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When I attempted to log into my #Nextdoor account (which, to be clear, I do not use anymore and have no plans to use again because Nextdoor is a cesspit) to change my email address, it claimed that it was sending a login code to my email address to complete the login, but the code email never arrived. Par for the course for Nextdoor, I suppose.
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After I changed my email address in the #NJTransit ticket app, they sent me an email message ➡️ 23 minutes later ⬅️ confirming the change. Then they sent a second, duplicate email two minutes after that. Both of these emails were sent to the new email address on my account; they did not sent a notification email to the old address. *sigh*
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(National Grid email address change shenanigans continued)
Once you submit the email address change form, you see this dialog.
It's obviously not true that the code expires "10 minutes after it is received." In fact, it expires 10 minutes after it's SENT.
When I tried last night to change my address, I didn't even receive the code until nearly 20 minutes after I submitted the form, so I couldn't confirm the change. It worked fine when I tried again this morning.
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I'm spending Yom Kippur atoning for my privacy sins by continuing to anonymize the email addresses for my accounts by changing them to #AnonAddy addresses.
Let's talk about changing your email address on #NationalGrid's billing portal.
This message incorrectly says to specify a notification email address "If you'd rather receive notifications at an email address that is different." That field is actually required: you can't submit the form without filling it in.
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I'm spending Yom Kippur atoning for my privacy sins by continuing to anonymize the email addresses for my accounts by changing them to #AnonAddy addresses.
Let's talk about changing your email address on #NationalGrid's billing portal.
This message incorrectly says to specify a notification email address "If you'd rather receive notifications at an email address that is different." That field is actually required: you can't submit the form without filling it in.
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I'm spending Yom Kippur atoning for my privacy sins by continuing to anonymize the email addresses for my accounts by changing them to #AnonAddy addresses.
Let's talk about changing your email address on #NationalGrid's billing portal.
This message incorrectly says to specify a notification email address "If you'd rather receive notifications at an email address that is different." That field is actually required: you can't submit the form without filling it in.
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I'm spending Yom Kippur atoning for my privacy sins by continuing to anonymize the email addresses for my accounts by changing them to #AnonAddy addresses.
Let's talk about changing your email address on #NationalGrid's billing portal.
This message incorrectly says to specify a notification email address "If you'd rather receive notifications at an email address that is different." That field is actually required: you can't submit the form without filling it in.
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I'm spending Yom Kippur atoning for my privacy sins by continuing to anonymize the email addresses for my accounts by changing them to #AnonAddy addresses.
Let's talk about changing your email address on #NationalGrid's billing portal.
This message incorrectly says to specify a notification email address "If you'd rather receive notifications at an email address that is different." That field is actually required: you can't submit the form without filling it in.
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Judging from my experience submitting account deletion requests to sites that won't let me change my email address (see my #ChangeOfAddress thread), most companies nowadays are honoring deletion requests even for users in states that don't have laws requiring them to do so.
This is a a very good thing, and it's another example of pro-consumer California law benefiting the entire country.
#privacy
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This is what happened, after a long delay, after I clicked on the address verification link to confirm my address change at https://cloud.mongodb.com/. It's almost like they are having a database performance issue. They should talk to some database professionals about that.
#MongoDB #MongoDBIsWebScale #tech #NoSQL
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At login.live.com (i.e., my Microsoft account), after I logged in to change my address it displayed my current contact info (email addresses, phone numbers) and asked me to confirm that it's correct. I clicked yes. It asked again. I clicked yes again. It asked a third time (!!). I clicked yes a third time. Finally it stopped asking. wtf
I had to go rooting around a bit in account settings to find everywhere email addresses were stashed, but I think I found them all.
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Over at memorystock.com, it looks like their web site hasn't been updated in 10 or 20 years, and, alas, there's no way to change your email address or ask them to delete your account.
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At eyemedvisioncare.com, changing my address went fine, but there's a little absurdity worth mentioning: every time you log in they send a verification code to your email that you have to enter (bad 2FA, but better than nothing), and the code is _10 digits long_. That's... ridiculous?!
Some developer or product manager somewhere: "Let's make it MORE digits, because MORE is more secure, right?" No, dumbass, not right. #smdh
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(mailgun.com address change continued) I've just deactivated 2FA by accident, so I need to fix that. I reactivate 2FA, then, to make sure everything is OK, I log out and back in. The new 2FA I just added doesn't work. Apparently I just reactivated 2FA for my native MailGun account which I can no longer use to log in. The 2FA which was migrated over to my Sinch ID with my account was never deactivated, so that's the one I have to use to log in. #smdh (continued) #ChangeOfAddress 🧵
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I attempted today to change my email address on #MailGun.com, and wooh boy, it did not go well. This isn't nearly going to fit in one post, so buckle up.
When I logged in, the site informed me that it was going to convert my MailGun login to a "Sinch ID" (MailGun was acquired by Sinch a few years ago). I was not given a choice about skipping this conversion. It seemed to go fine. (continued) #ChangeOfAddress 🧵 -
I debated whether to change the email addresses on my #GitHub and #GitLab accounts to #AnonAddy addresses.
These addresses aren't just used to contact me; they're also put into #Git commits. I don't want to put ugly anonymous email addresses in commits or make it hard for people to contact me about #FOSS stuff I commit.
I decided to add AnonAddy addresses to my accounts to detect if my account info is sold or leaked, while leaving my real address on the accounts too.
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I debated whether to change the email addresses on my #GitHub and #GitLab accounts to #AnonAddy addresses.
These addresses aren't just used to contact me; they're also put into #Git commits. I don't want to put ugly anonymous email addresses in commits or make it hard for people to contact me about #FOSS stuff I commit.
I decided to add AnonAddy addresses to my accounts to detect if my account info is sold or leaked, while leaving my real address on the accounts too.
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