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This is an interesting piece of history that I have never seen. Thanks for sharing

It was yesterday but good to know that there can be at least a general timeline. I guess I’ll just have to put up with all the walls for now.

Right now they’re giving me a run around for it so it hasn’t been so easy

Well, I contacted them and used the GDPR as my reasoning. Let’s see if they comply or come up with another excuse.

Shady to say the least. But as long as you have a single ban active, they keep you from deleting it

Think I have any actual recourse to pressure them into deleting it? They won’t let you delete any account with an active ban

I got caught up in it. At this point I have no respect for the company. This was one of my favorite games to play but I refuse to touch any EA products anymore. I only hope they unban me so I can officially delete my account.

Edit: After going through 12 emails, with 6 consecutive different associates, In which 5/6 asked me for verification that I owned the account instead of actually progressing the case - I finally reached someone who helped. I submitted a request on the site and am waiting back to get confirmation my data was deleted.

The email chain went like this: Assistant 1: Requests verification code and asks if I want to exercise my right to be forgotten Me: (verifies and confirms) Assistant 2: Sends a disclaimer and asks me to confirm Me: (confirms) Assistant 3: Asks if it’s for this account, if there are any others. Me: (confirms) Assistant 4: Requests verification again and asks if I am trying to exercise my right to be forgotten. Me: (confirms) Assistant 5: Requests verification code and asks me if I have any mobile games. Me: (confirms and answers no) Assistant 6: Requests verification code again. Asks if I am exercising my right to be forgotten. Me: (says I’m not confirming any more and to delete my damn data according to the GDPR)

Right after that someone contacts me that they are looking into it. Eventually I get an email with a link to the help site that asks me to to confirm my email I follow through, request a deletion and it says to wait a couple days for a confirmation email.

I also receive another email from another associate shortly after (#7) asking me to confirm that I want to request my data is deleted.

A fuckin’ nightmare.

Honestly I would never buy another Kingston or PNY storage device. They are the only two brands that have ever failed on me consistently.

Second. Vivaldi isn’t even fully open sourced to begin with.

This is probably the case. The only keyboard I’ve bought and will buy from drop nowadays are the Tokyo60s. Otherwise I use it for key caps or accessories.

There are switches that are specifically designed to be silent. Getting them used to mean building a custom keyboard (which can be much easier than it sounds with hot swap boards) but I think they are more common now. You can check drop.com for a couple builds that should have silent switches and hopefully be wireless.

I found my holy grail in the HHKB Pro 2 Type S. It is not cheap by any means, uses a different switch type called topre and has a non standard layout that people love or hate. Fwiw I originally hated it because it didn’t have dedicated have arrow keys, but the fn layer arrow keys became muscle memory within a couple of weeks.

It’s wireless and pairs to multiple devices but it’s not for everyone. I haven’t bought another mechanical keyboard since.

It is definitely not a bit more work. It’s hours and hours of reading manuals, following video guides and configuring every last detail.

This is a gross simplification