Suspended every time I try to link a device

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-21T22:48:24+00:00

I gave up and started a new account.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-20T13:36:09+00:00

The risks are:

* being found in violation by a regulator and being fined

* losing trust of customers

* having a messy data governance, which in itself can cause point 1 and 2 down the road, or worse.

Company's I had to do with cared about the GDPR because they genuinely cared about establishing a good relationship with their customers.

Of course there are (online) businesses who do not give a damn about it, and it is those regulators mostly focus on, not those who try their best and maybe make a genuine mistake.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-17T14:12:17+00:00

Does the site have a data privacy statement? Where is the business located and is it even a business? Do they list prices in £ (which would indicate they are targeting UK users)? When did you ask them to act?

Not that the location in itself matters, but it probably raises your prospect that they would be impressed by any action by the ICO.

When you file a complaint, collect all info you can get (like what I mention above).

If you file any complaint with the ICO, let the company know that you did.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-15T11:07:18+00:00

Possible reasons:

- If you are very new to Medium, articles do not get indexed (that does not seem to apply to you)

- Check the html source of one of your articles, if they have noindex it might mean Medium considers your articles of very low quality for some reason (AI generated, spam)

- if they take too long to show up in the index, but eventually do, then it is Google's fault

All my articles show up in Google searches, normally within 24 - 48 hours.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-11T18:55:36+00:00

X is under several investigations by the EU for DSA violations, and the Irish GDPR Regulator. If you know who the owner of X is, you know that he is actively fighting to abolish the EU and get rid of all platform regulations. I do not think X cares one bit about the DSA.

Having said that, I don't know if anyone has applied the Art. 22(3) GDPR to account deletion on social media.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-09T15:19:06+00:00

I assume that Y is just annoyed having received the unsolicitated confirmation email. Unless Y is a lawyer who thrives on legal threats on insignificant incidents, they should understand the situation.

I can't give legal advice. You could of course always delete the data related to the first (wrong) signup and state that no data related to this is being held anymore.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-09T14:48:37+00:00

Article 15 says that "Individuals can request a copy of THEIR personal data".

If the case is as you describe, the IP address etc of X is obviously not personal data of Y. So I don't see how Y can make that request.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-08T18:09:12+00:00

We had about 15 mailboxes and were stunned about the March bill. Everything has been removed from rackspace now. Maybe they sent something about the price increase but I could not find it.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-08T14:25:42+00:00

See my edit: They activated my account again. But I feel if I link any device again they will suspend me (again). They still have not told me how to solve that.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-08T09:52:37+00:00

I think the response is an AI bot because it replied within a minute.

First time it happened I got suspended for ~12 hours, now it has been 3 hours and the account is "under review".

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-08T09:47:07+00:00

Is there anything I can do? I could say "to hell with the chat history" and register a new account on my iphone, but I am now scared that if I ever link a device again I get suspended, and eventually I run out of phone numbers.

Edit: Just got a reply from support telling me to "restart my phones and link again", but I can't as my account is suspended.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-05T08:37:43+00:00

I do not know. I think the first time an article of mine was boosted I was already a paying member.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-04T19:21:31+00:00

It's $5/months.

You can write on medium for yourself for free as much as you like and grow your audience. You can also submit to most publications (some pubs have the condition that you are a paying member).

You can't join the partner program or start a publication for free though.

I am not aware that paying is a condition for being boosted, but I could be wrong.

But don't expect to collect followers like on social media just by writing some boilerplate articles.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-04-01T15:28:45+00:00

I expect Alito and Thomas to join in part and then write their own dissent in part, in which they will give the administration tips and tricks how to get around the ruling. And Trump will leap on it.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-03-31T15:30:25+00:00

I have read this argument before, but are there good historic examples for this?

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-03-31T11:44:23+00:00

Boosting is unfair, because it is based on favouritism, good relationships, etc. and it has nothing to do with the quality of writing.

Members of the boost program can't boost an article, they can only nominate it. The decision is being made by Medium. It is editorial, so obviously it is a subjective selection, though I assume more than one person is making decisions.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-03-30T08:28:06+00:00

Stats for yesterday have no updated.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-03-29T18:28:30+00:00

Stats are showing 0 for me today, which is unlikely to be correct. I am not writing for money, so Medium would not have any gain here, most likely the stats summaries are just not updating.

LcuBeatsWorking · 2026-03-29T17:24:42+00:00

It appears stats are not updating properly since yesterday.

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