Sorry, bit this is just the standard "boil the frog" playbook that tech companies always use for user-hostile features. It's usually:

1) There is this new entirely optional feature, but it's not relevant to you, so feel free to ignore it.

2) The feature is now active by default, but no worries, there is a simple button for you to opt-out.

3) The feature is active by default, but because we value our users, there is an option in the advanced settings to deactivate it.

4) Our data shows that 99.9% of users activated the feature, but if you belong to the handful of diehards who still refuse to use it (rolls eyes), you can use this obscure command line flag or about:config entry to turn it off

5) Managing opt-out infrastructure for the feature has significant maintenance and security cost that we feel, we can no longer justify. Therefore, effective in three months, the opt-out flags will stop working and the feature will become mandatory. According to our metrics, this will affect 0.0001% of our users, so no disruption is expected.

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aidenn0 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The "there is something wrong with you if you are at all off the beaten path" has cropped up a lot more for me recently; two examples both from 2026:

1. You can't use Firefox with our website (when I got this popup, I thought I had been transported back in time 20 years, but with Chrome substituted for IE).

2. You can't sign up for accounts with an e-mail from a "custom domain"

2a. I ran some tests; it's the domain itself, not the host, so e.g. foo@gmail.com is allowed but not a foo@somewhereelse.com, even if hosted by google).

2b. After a bit of back-and-forth with support: "No, we won't tell you the list of allowed domains, but gmail and hotmail both will work."

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adithyassekhar an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Reddit used to allow that till last week and now they started rejecting those emails. RIP temporary mail services and throwaway accounts.

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throwaway093020 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Vote with your wallet. I've only experienced two instances where systems wouldn't accept my custom email domain. One was a bank. I proceeded to close the account.

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crtasm 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Incredible... if I ever get that I'll enjoy pointing out I've had my domain longer than gmail has existed.

	▲	tavavex a minute ago \| parent [-]
		They don't care about how much older, more secure, more trustworthy and so on your domain is. That's not the issue they're having. The issue is that you are 'abnormal', and it is in the common interest of tech companies to make any signs of abnormality (read: not-total compliance to their whims) to be inherently suspicious and nefarious behavior that needs to be curtailed.

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ryandrake 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is a great comment, and yes, the entire industry seems to keep doing this over and over.

My computers and devices feel less and less like tools under my control and doing my bidding, and more and more like something controlled by faraway tech companies, to do their bidding.

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stavros 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oof, this comment convinced me to go from loving passkeys to "maybe I should be careful". However, I don't think these are technological issues, I think they're policy issues. We need to vote for freedom of computing, and against corporations doing whatever the hell they want.

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cowlevel 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Your choices affect how policies affect you. When the government starts receiving copies of all card transactions, the person who habitually uses cash is unaffected, as is the person who habitually uses Monero.

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klardotsh 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The number of places one can reasonably use cash anymore is rapidly shrinking. Some places it’s truly impossible.

I do believe this is a policy failure and that a law should exist mandating cash acceptance “for all debts public and private”, but there is nearly zero chance of such a law ever passing in the US.

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what 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I’ve never seen anywhere that doesn’t accept cash? Where have you experienced this?

	▲	klardotsh 33 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Increasingly common at smaller businesses in western Washington (have seen this in Seattle, Bellingham, and occasionally elsewhere). Even where it's "technically" possible, it's becoming more difficult. Some grocery stores around here don't staff traditional teller lanes at night, shrinking down to only self-checkout, which are card-only machines. To pay cash, you'll have to escalate to the roaming attendant (or at least, I assume they can find some way to accept cash for that transaction? I can't say I've tried)
	▲	Projectiboga 43 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I've seen retail businesses in NYC and NJ that were no cash. I think NYC has banned that practice, but I'm not sure if that has held.