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Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

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597 points classichasclass | 4 comments | 25 Aug 25 04:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Etheryte ◴[25 Aug 25 05:39 UTC] No.45010574[source]▶
One starts to wonder, at what point might it be actually feasible to do it the other way around, by whitelisting IP ranges. I could see this happening as a community effort, similar to adblocker list curation etc.
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1. lxgr ◴[25 Aug 25 06:13 UTC] No.45010757[source]▶
Many US companies do it already.

It should be illegal, at least for companies that still charge me while I’m abroad and don’t offer me any other way of canceling service or getting support.

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2. withinboredom ◴[25 Aug 25 07:08 UTC] No.45011129[source]▶
I'm pretty sure I still owe t-mobile money. When I moved to the EU, we kept our old phone plans for awhile. Then, for whatever reason, the USD didn't make it to the USD account in time and we missed a payment. Then t-mobile cut off the service and you need to receive a text message to login to the account. Obviously, that wasn't possible. So, we lost the ability to even pay, even while using a VPN. We just decided to let it die, but I'm sure in t-mobile's eyes, I still owe them.
3. thenthenthen ◴[25 Aug 25 07:36 UTC] No.45011292[source]▶
This! Dealing with European services from China is also terrible. As is the other way around. Welcome to the intranet!
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4. thenthenthen ◴[25 Aug 25 16:45 UTC] No.45015816[source]▶
In addition, my tencent and alicloud instances are also hammered to death by their own bots. Just to add a bit of perspective.