Security Writer 
Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
Martin Seeger@SecurityWriter For some time Valve made me jump through hoops because I had a „strange email address“.
The support told me to use something like gmail. My email address is older than Valve and Google..
Martin@[email protected]
I have a strange email, too. Only two persons have an account on that server. Luckily that was never an issue for Valve. Only Tonline required me to send an email and ask for an manual unblock of my servers IP to be able to send mails to them.
@[email protected]
I have a strange email, too. Only two persons have an account on that server. Luckily that was never an issue for Valve. Only Tonline required me to send an email and ask for an manual unblock of my servers IP to be able to send mails to them.
@[email protected]
Cyber Grimes@martin @masek @SecurityWriter
One of my email aliases is literally just a domain I own, and it gets rejected regularly. What, we aren't allowed to have custom domains now? They going to start enforcing that on companies as well? "Sorry, your techdept(@)google(dot)com email is suspicious, maybe try gmail?" Lol
Lou 🏳️⚧️@violent_grimes
> What, we aren't allowed to have custom domains now?
The payment processor Mangopay started requiring that "Natural Users" (individuals) use emails from allowed domains¹ last month. Their justification is that only businesses use custom domains (lol) and that's a different type of object in their system…
I expect others will pull the same shit.
1: of course, the full list isn't disclosed but includes Gmail, Outlook, France's main Internet access providers, Proton, and Tuta..
Recently started using aliases, and the shit some of these platforms come up with when they want you to use something they can use to mine your data is wild. "Oh, something went wrong. Please try again." Three "tries again" and suddenly their "hinting" gets more blunt, "Maaaaybe you should try a different email address." Lol, nope don't actually need SoundCloud thanks. 🖕😘