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Re:A $130M company faked trials instead of running our free OSS by DocTomoe on Friday May 16, 2025 @08:44AM (#44004789)
chances are: checks it against a database of addresses it has seen before (e.g. because they were used to register stuff elsewhere). No such entry, or entries all younger than n days -> 'freshly registered'.

Sucks for people who don't use their addresses for just about anything.

Re:A $130M company faked trials instead of running our free OSS by reconnecting on Friday May 16, 2025 @09:09AM (#44005060)
It is not a healthy idea to prevent access to a trial solely because of a lack of reputation associated with an email. However, in this specific case, if there is a rotation of numbers at the end of the email, tirreno has rules that detect similar email patterns.

Additionally, I assume that registrations are coming from the same IP or network, which should make it simple to detect through platform.