3rd time in less than a month I’ve gone to log into a company’s site and found out they deleted my account because I hadn’t used it in the last several months… one was my bank. I’m all for security, but good god that is an idiotic policy! When I contacted my bank they said well just make sure you log in from a desktop browser (phone not good enough) at last once a month. If every company did this I would spend 4 hours a day just trying to keep all my online accounts open.
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