Hello nice people,

I’ve been using NiceHash app for some time 5-6 years ago. (It was a simple app for mining cryptocurrency and you get paid in bitcoin on their wallet, then you could transfer bitcoin to another wallet.) It was working fine until they got hacked (or fooled us) and lost all crypto. Luckily I didn’t loose much like some guys did. I decided not to use the service anymore and I’m still receiving stupid e-mail newsletters. I tried to unsubscribe and It asks me for login, I know password, but don’t have 2fa anymore. Also I don’t have backup 16 words.

Now support told me that this is the only way and I feel ridiculous about taking selfie just to unsubscribe. Am I protected against this somehow? I live in Europe and I think Nicehash is located in neighbourhood.

And of course I never wanted to subscribe…and I don’t think I ever verified account with a document.

What are my options other than just filtering that shitty domain as spam?

edit: typo

    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Don’t point out how all their bullshit requires middlemen and accounts holding their currency to make it work. That makes it looks silly. Almost like it’s just more complicated harder to use money that people can more easily steal from you.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I love talking to tech recruiters… We are a defi startup revolutionizing the financial world… “Cool, so distributed smart contracts, zero knowledge open source swarms?”… no, we run a centralized website where people give us money and we do a thing for them…

        Putting the central back in defi. It’s almost like their is willful ignorance in what their own words mean.

  • DetectiveSanity@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    How exactly does that verify that you are the owner of the mentioned account nor verify legitimate interest in withdrawing consent from being included in their marketing campaigns!?

    • rambos@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the link. Feels bad tho 😭 gdpr gave me Accept/Reject cookies and some more pain as a bonus it seems 😂

      • Schlecknits@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        GDPR didn’t give you cookie banners, it’s shitty websites that do.

        If they were to just follow activated “Do not Track”-Preferences, they wouldn’t need to ask, instead they would deactived them by default. Or you could just not use cookies, it’s not like somebody forces you to give cookies out to your website’s users.