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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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