cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/30783421
It’s as if humanity is dying off. They don’t want to see you in person so physical addresses are being withheld from contact pages. I now must dig into the privacy policy or ToS to find an address. It’s really a shitshow because whoever handles privacy requests could be entirely outsourced to someone who has nothing to do with an org.
It boils down to nannying. They don’t even want to enable people to write snail-mail letters – which is king for escaping enshitification and the digital transformation.
Oh yeah. Been going on for years. Its a real problem. When I apply for jobs I keep a record that the unemployment office required when I was receiving benefits. It includes address. I feel like I have to be a hacker to get the addresses. I avoid ones without one because quite frankly it makes you wonder if they are scams. I can’t phathom society working very well without in person options unless we have a system where social safety nets are given to any citizen and if for any reason its going to be denied or withheld that physical people come and verify. We need to flip the systems and make processing assume legitamacy and require massive checking before doing any blocking.