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The last time it was mentioned here, perhaps a couple of weeks ago, I tried to warm up my old last.fm account.

I once used it for a long time, but that time was maybe 20 years ago now. I wasn't even sure what my username, password, or email address would have been -- but I had some guesses.

So I guessed a few times. I guessed wrong. The wrong guesses apparently blocked me, since the sign-up page now always goes 403 for me.

When I tried with my pocket supercomputer instead, the infection spread to its signature as well: It 403s there, too.

Fun times.

edit: Tried again. It didn't work yesterday or the couple of weeks prior. But it worked the first time today. So now I have a shiny new last.fm account with no history. :)

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Get in touch with LFM support, it's good. I hadn't used my LFM since 2011, but I remembered my old email address that was likely used with the account. I emailed support asking them kindly to reset my password to my new email, and they obliged.

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Sorry to reply twice. My previous reply is too old to edit.

I looked for contact info, but https://www.last.fm/about/contact only lists one email address and says not to use that for tech support. It says to use support.lastfm.com -- a forum -- for technical questions.

But I'm pretty unwilling to throw a bunch account data, even if it's already public and already very old, into one place for the bots to hoover up, ruminate upon, correlate, and then keep track of until the earth cools.

Any tips on proceeding?

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I've found the support email address. It might still be open for support queries. If you send me an email I'll send you what I know. My email address is in my profile.

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email sent

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Crazy. I might give it a shot. That era of my email is long gone, but I might be able to give them a very short list.