Why ? Random Tech Questions
4I have a tech question that I thought some of the more tech savvy members of the community could answer. I also thought I'm probably not the only one with a random tech question. Hence, a Q&A thread.
If it doesn't work out, it's all @cengland0's fault.
Q: I have an old yahoo email that is a made up word, but it could be a "real" name. There are no caps, no symbols, no spaces, just regular ordinary alphabet letters. It has served me well for many many years. Recently, when using it to check out on a site or fill out some sort of form for something, I got back an error message that said something to the effect that my email is "invalid" and could I please try again. Thinking I hit a wrong key or something I tried a couple more times. No go. And now this has happened several times at different sites. I end up screaming something like: "it is valid you morons" at my computer. Some sites suggest I leave out symbols and spaces, etc.. but there aren't any. This leads to more yelling.
What's going on? It still works most places. Why do some sites suddenly see my email as invalid ?
Thank you.
TL;DR Some websites don't like my old email.
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Some sites check the domain name of your email address to verify it can be resolved by the DNS server. If the email server is down at the moment, it could be rejected. Some sites go even farther and send a welcome email that contains a link that you need to click to confirm that it's a real email ID and that you have access to it.
You said that it was a yahoo email ID. I've been on some forum sites that reject email ID's from places where anyone can create a new ID easily. Yahoo, for example, will allow you to create an unlimited number of email ID's so yahoo and google are automatically rejected.
I have several ID's that have special characters and haven't had any difficulty using them. For example, one ID is firstname.lastname@domain.net and another is firstname_lastname@domain.net. Of course I don't have any that use !#$%^&*()+?,<> or =.
@cengland0 If they auto reject all yahoo and google addys then they are going to lose a lot of business. That seems weird to me. BTW, Never been sent a confirm to my email.
@ceagee I wonder if it could be due to Yahoo's anti-spoofing policy. You can only send mail from a real yahoo server so if you try to authenticate the yahoo domain from a non-yahoo site, it may come back as an invalid SMTP address. The site you are using to checkout should use a different method for validating email addresses if it uses that technique.
@cengland0 not sure why your address is being rejected.
With gmail you can add +anytext to the end of your address and some sites will reject that. I use it for filtering, example myemail+gasco@gmail.com, myemail+junk@gmail.com the + gets it rejected at times.
@cengland0 I ordered a cable from newegg tonight and it happened. In my frustration I hit the enter key 5 or 6 times while cursing and then it worked. Maybe there's a trick to it or something. BTW, I got a "Something went wrong" message and started singing. : )
@ceagee I think you are confusing two different sites. I don't believe newegg has the "Something went wrong" message. Besides, it's "Something went terribly terribly wrong."
@cengland0 No goat, I'm not confused. They had a "something went wrong" message, but my brain went automatically to "something went terribly wrong". Get it goat ? Nice goat. There now, have a carrot. PS The song is "Something went Terribly wrong" One of the lines in the song is "terribly terribly" Time to listen again meh.com/irk
@ceagee Thank you for the place for random tech Qs. I too am in need of a solution.
So how come in the last week the sound on Meh videos won't work on Chrome in my phone, and yet it'll work on YouTube on Chrome in my phone? WTF? Same video, same browser, different website?
This started with the very mediocre pumpkin de-meh-lition video, so maybe my browser is just passing judgment and preventing me from seeing more like that. But it should know better when a MIBMMTIS is on offer, dammit!
@bluedyn bad cookies, clear data (if you can bear to do that D:). if it doesn't work then @cengland0 broke it. (edit to add a link, seems to be common: https://www.google.com/search?q=embedded+youtube+no+sound)
@Lotsofgoats I did see a lot of similar complaints on the internet, too. I was on the verge of uninstalling updates and wiping it, but hoped someone would have some little trick for me. Thanks for the advice. :)
@bluedyn A few weeks ago, I had a different embedded video on Chrome problem. In my case, I thought the embedded videos would not play at all. I didn't keep good notes on what I tried before I just started watching videos in the YouTube app, or on other systems. Eventually I noticed that it would respond to taps, just not in the right way. A long tap would bring up a menu, and then I could tap next to the menu to start the video. The problem went away after restarting everything and logging out from Google and back in, and possibly other actions. It would have gone much faster, if I had read @Lotsofgoats link a few weeks ago. I blame @cengland0 for not posting the link while I had my problem.
@bluedyn Chrome does save settings and data by website, so you might be able to wipe meh.com specifically if you find it in Settings > Content Settings > Website Settings
@Lotsofgoats @hamjudo Since it's on a new phone, I didn't mind wiping the app down to factory version. It's all good now. But I appreciate the tips. When it happens again, I'll come back to this thread.
Here's a tech question: When I hit power on my Blu-ray player, WHY THE HELL DOES IT TAKE FIVE YEARS TO TURN OFF. Could go the same route and ask WHEN I HIT OPEN/CLOSE WHY THE HELL DOES IT TAKE FIVE YEARS.... I'm done. Its always the little things, lol.
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@unoriginal26 Probably because it's not really a blu-ray player, but a computer who's primary job is to be a blu-ray player