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@canvayio I tried to signup, but it kept complaining about me coming from a VPN... eventually I had to enable a VPN to a customer-network to actually be able to signup, instead of originally, without VPN from my home (with v6-tunnel though)

Seems a bit odd...

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Sorry about that! Looks like your IP address is somehow listed as a "datacenter ip" which gets detected as a VPN

Which is correct, as I route my IPv6 via wireguard to my DC netblock, because my consumer ISP at home doesn't provide any IPv6.

Granted I was using IPv4, but I've had a lot of trouble using Wireguard to my Linode server for casual browsing. Google became unusable with repeated captchas, several gaming apps blocked my login. I wish web owners wouldn't automatically classify datacenter IPs as malicious. There must be better ways to block spam/bad actors than by the classification of their source IP.

yep agreed, I've disabled the IP detection

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