Completely ruined by spam calls for me.
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I just got locked out of my account because I used a VPN and a burner email trying to pay my phone bill. They eventually let me in, but it was like a 30 minute ordeal of me trying to get back into my account.
Someone pointed out other day how the anti-vpn stuff is ramping up lately. I've noticed it too.
I mean, there are portions of the internet. I just straight up can't or won't use anymore because they block me for using a VPN. I used to have a Reddit account for asking random questions about niche topics and I can no longer use them because they block me for any sort of VPN activity. That's probably my biggest example, but I know there are other ones.
Oh that's right, Reddit is a huge one. What's really upsetting is when something just doesn't work, and it'll take me 5 minutes of trying stuff before I think to disable vpn and then poof it works. Happened with an event ticket site thing most recently.
Oh yeah, that's another one I can't use. ticket master. I won some tickets through a radio station, a good handful of months ago, and oh boy was that a hassle getting those tickets.
You refuse to just disable? I don't like it, but that's what I'll do. Not sure how big a deal a one off no-vpn interaction is, but assume it's negligible, so must be a principled reason
At this point, it's definitely a principal thing for me. It's probably partially retarded on my part. But hostility towards privacy really pisses me off.
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Haha never had that one. Get a lot of crypto scam texts and sometimes calls. Most i just hang up on and never know what they are about.
I do use a service called Jolly Roger Telephone Company. It's like 12 bucks a year per phone line. It does two things. It blocks spam calls and gives actual humans a chance to get to your number And if you happen to catch a spammer, it shunts them into a robot and sends you the recording of this person trying to talk to the robot.