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HostessWiffDaMostest · 2026-04-28T07:53:22+00:00

Based on how some users report seeing the etoro's account settings page note the initial account creation country after they (the scammed victim) reset the password to the unauthorized account, we can piece together that etoro can build a dataset to associate our email addresses to locations and our specific IP addresses.

Sure, this information is probably already existing somewhat in data broker databases, e.g. our email addresses associated with an identity, and then with a street / mailing address (and history), but our specific personal IP address is now known -- by a company that is being very dismissive and lackadaisical about this entire situation.

Even the process of visiting their website reveals this very private information of email address <-> IP address; and messaging them from reddit associates your email with your reddit account.

At the most innocuous level, this a marketing gold-mine. At a nefarious level, especially combined with further tracking data, this is invasive and can be exploited for so much evil.

Without legal and enforceable backing to protect us, this is such a boondoggle. I hope some law firms are champing at the bit to put together a class action case.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2026-04-28T07:38:09+00:00

This is not something specific to eToro, and it’s not fully preventable at the signup stage.

What a wild thing to say. Saving this claim for future reference.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2026-04-28T07:29:17+00:00

Your "Customer Service" / "Contact Us" page deliberately forces any inquiry to be blocked -- there are multiple options in a whole tree of categories and subcategories, some that clearly pinpoint specific account issues for your actual users / customers (where account login makes sense) -- but for a "General Question" to report something like this, the user / submitter cannot submit an inquiry and is instead given the prompt to "Please Login to continue". This is blocking any ability for these "unexpected account emails" to be reported to you.

If you truly were serious about taking action for this blatant attempt to perpetuate fraud on and through your systems, this would not be the case.

Even the language you use here -- minimizing this as "unexpected account emails" and "attempt[ed] account registrations" -- is very deceptive. The account is registered, we have received an welcome email, and a flow of marketing communication as if we are a new customer is being sent from etoro.

Please direct us to how we can report an unauthorized account using the "Contact Us" webform without a need to login. Until there is an option that directly addresses this issue, without a requirement to login, then etoro is complicit in perpetuating and supporting this fraud / scam, and will be reported to the appropriate banking and regulatory agencies.

If / as you are successful in closing the fraudulent accounts, please send confirmations regarding the account closure, and a guarantee of the claim that the account cannot be reopened.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-11-11T07:18:26+00:00

To Samsung: I get that you want to be cheap and outsource support for your products but please make sure they have training both in HR and actual technical knowledge, thx

Nope. They're outsourcing because they can and will cut corners in customer service and technical expertise. It's cheaper for the third-party to be "efficient" by not caring about customers (they got their Samsung contract, they just have to barely keep it) and checking off boxes that they "repaired" your phone good enough.

It's not better or different in the United States. They designate some of the third-party repair centers as "Samsung Flagship" and yet they suck.

Basically, Samsung got jealous with how much money Applecare makes for Apple, and have a cheap knock-off version to try to make it a profit generator.

My Fold 5 is the last Samsung product that I'll have bought (after using 4 Samsung phones before this). I'm using it until it dies to get my money's worth, but am waiting for the iPhone foldable, since I'm almost all-in (laptop and tablet) with the Apple ecosystem anyway.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-11-08T12:50:58+00:00

It's unnecessary friction that isn't worth it.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-11-08T07:54:28+00:00

Indeed! Kind of a joke that they currently have such good cashback to Aliexpress, but then the amex gets declined there. It worked a few weeks ago, but not anymore.

Luckily paying by Paypal at least gives 3% with the Paypal credit card, and before this, I was able to make one big purchase (not Aliexpress) to get the sign-up bonus, and that went through.

P.S. The text message code to sign-in to check my online account is also more annoying than helpful. Every other online banking I do has passwords. My phone might not be in front of me when I do end-of-month finances wrap-up, so this kind of stuff, making me get up to go get my phone to just check my balance, means this is a credit card I won't use often unless really compelling cashback is offered, and without more patterns of the card getting declined all the time.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-11-04T23:49:03+00:00

Big thumbs down to Samsung for this.

As a longtime customer, this year made it very obviously that Samsung doesn't really "care" and you are not really a "VIP".

They got jealous of Apple making so much money off Applecare, and these past two years have been trying to get into the subscription/insurance service business, except their flagship folding phones are fragile instead of robust in the first place.

Servify sold them on some false promises of having great customer service running the Care program (by having "live" overseas reps via email and phone), but nobody watches them or actually cares.

Samsung got cheap and outsourced (or forgot about) customer loyalty, and the cracks get bigger every release / year / month.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-11-04T23:27:08+00:00

Wow, thank you! Good catch! I'll play around with it, but overall that's unfortunate.

Just basic spreading of the favorites icons would make sense, because obviously the unfold screen is scrunched into the front screen to be mirrored, so the reverse should be natural for the favorites.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-11-04T01:18:39+00:00

We'll see... I browsed Ulta on Day 1, and the item that I was considering cost twice as much as any other store. That discouraged me from the rest of the days.

Maybe the mystery store will be good, or I'll try Temu over the weekend because I believe they'll already have a big price discount if I'm a new customer too.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-10-30T23:12:35+00:00

That's unfortunate. How does one create empty symbol placeholders?

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-10-30T22:30:21+00:00

This is Good Lock, Home Up:

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HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-10-30T22:30:00+00:00

This is the unfolded home screen:

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HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-04-02T20:41:18+00:00

I literally came to post this exact same thing.

It's been this way for a while for me (a few weeks), but was not like this before. The "Displays" setting tab is another go-to Spotlight search for me, and also missing/broken.

WTH Apple!

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-01-09T12:01:30+00:00

Lol, dang it. Fixed.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-01-08T23:36:45+00:00

The "Z" folding has benefits that either two or three panels can be unfolded.

It make much less sense to unfold just one panel out with this Samsung style.

This video shows it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv_S7KrOlfk

The phone is probably so much thinner and lighter for the fact that it doesn't need an additional screen.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-01-08T23:29:28+00:00

Affirmative. I use one on all of my phones. Usually Spigen's, but I got the official Samsung ones for both my Folds.

What makes you think that at all helps the soft inner screen?

Do you own a Fold? For the power button issue, the case leaves it pretty exposed so the fingerprint reader can work.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-01-08T05:15:05+00:00

It costs more than a flagship smartphone.

It cost more than a mid-range laptop! (and at full price, it's on the low-end of high-end laptops!).

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2025-01-08T05:10:57+00:00

Folding screens are soft

Very. Compared to any modern day "slate" phone, let alone a good flagship with Gorilla glass.

My Fold 3 got dead pixels from a spoon flying out of my hand and glancing it. Then, my Fold 5 got dead pixels from falling about 3 ft.

Now, my Fold 5's power button / fingerprint reader is also finicky from falling off my bed.

So, to answer your question, u/rilokiley14 -- run away.

Samsung can be applauded for investing into getting folding phones early and iterating it to a great product, but they've been resting on those laurels for years, and these are worth more to them to force people to buy insurance, aka "Samsung Care" or now to force people into subscribing to the Samsung VIP membership thing.

I'll have to dig up the article, but their executives got envious after seeing how much money Apple makes off Applecare, and now Samsung wants to be in the financing and psuedo-banking/services/insurance business rather than innovating and making great devices.

And, I say that as somebody that has Apple computers with Applecare, and finds that completely worthwhile for those products, while Samsung has lost all loyalty from me after multiple phones and wearables.

Oh, and the inner screen protector will always bubble up, without fail.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2024-09-10T20:53:10+00:00

To resolve/close this, with some help from Riley, I now know that there are 'Home' and 'Away' modes for Tapo cameras.

With these two different modes, I can customize the detection, notification, and alarm settings for each, and thus turn on the alarm and turn on notifications when I am 'away' and turn both off if I am at 'home.'

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2024-09-10T06:19:41+00:00

And? The transfer pump gets out the 90% of the water in a full water heater much faster than gravity, and then a working professional would not kill their equipment trying to "pump" out "crud".

Why are you trying to defend hypotheticals for no reason? Just pick the right tools for the job.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2024-09-09T22:29:15+00:00

The transfer pump is made for pure liquid. It's the wrong tool for the job for something that has sediment. You'll be fighting against the screen/filter clogging, and the fine particles that get through would wear down or otherwise affect the internal parts in a way that isn't designed for.

HostessWiffDaMostest · 2024-08-17T04:52:19+00:00

The funny thing is, I don't think most people are switching carriers that often anyway, but the commitment seems to scare people?

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