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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by Scapeghost on Saturday August 22, 2020 @10:00PM (#24248932)
And let's not forget being assumed to be a spammer by almost all sites, getting rate limited or shadowbanned, not to mention being buried with captchas and having to do unpaid labor to train Google's AI just to access some sites! If you're not outright blocked, that is.

All for having an IP address originating from such regions with cheap internet that you can't do much with anyway.

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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by amingilani on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:55AM (#24249615)
Oh yeah, I have experienced that for a lot of my life. I didn't realize that that wasn't normal, though. I haven't experienced Canadian internet for long enough.

However, I can definitely say that I have had to solve a lot of captchas and can recall at least one incident where I could only have been banned because I was from Pakistan.

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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by Scapeghost on Sunday August 23, 2020 @09:53AM (#24251959)
It happens often on Reddit, which is really bad with their shadowbanning and associating you with other accounts that you have nothing to do with, probably because crappy ISPs reuse IP addresses for multiple users.
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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by amingilani on Sunday August 23, 2020 @10:02AM (#24252010)
Some ISPs also use a carrier-grade NAT so multiple users share an IP address.
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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by Tijdreiziger on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:36PM (#24253632)
Isn't this almost universally the case for mobile data?
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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by amingilani on Monday August 24, 2020 @07:01PM (#24266470)
I suppose so, but I know of multiple Pakistani ISPs that do this with their fiber offerings as well. I don't know if it's standard practice, though.
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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by fomine3 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @11:51PM (#24257402)
Possibly IPv6 support on both ISP and web service solves this issue.
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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by 908B64B197 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:25AM (#24272292)
That really has nothing to do with the quality of the connection (what kind of bandwidth/ping and availability).

It's people misbehaving that causes these types of ban and who are voting for pro-censorship government. They could remove these restrictions overnight if they wanted to.

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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by hombre_fatal on Sunday August 23, 2020 @05:03AM (#24250647)
"Unpaid labor to work for Google" a trite, popular meme, but your compensation is access to the site you want access to.

You can thank bad actors for that arrangement.

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