Strutz Strutz:
Thanos Thanos:
It'll take a chunk out of my daily internet travels as there were a couple dozen accounts I regularly check in on but it's no big deal. I asked them to reinstate my old account (that got frozen when I told a Cowboys For Trump idiot running for Congress that I hoped he'd get kicked right between his legs by his horse) via email. But they steadfastly refuse to do it any other way except by text message, and I don't have a phone*, so to hell with that method.
That's stupid. Just like the "services" that insist you must have their freaking app on your phone. I don't do those.
711 is now doing the same thing. Their newly-revised Rewards cash-in site now makes a member provide a phone number for a confirmation code and the email address alone is no longer acceptable. For some reason know only to people in tech sending that confirmation code number to the email address provided just apropos anymore. This means I've got over 15000 points now stranded that I can't use.
Don't know why this is the new way of doing things, where either email or phone number were perfectly fine in the past but is now verboten and has to be both. Maddening, but nothing can be done, as it's getting more and more obvious with every passing year that the corporate group-mind is getting stronger and they simply do things like this just because some other company before them did.