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The mobile providers are:
- Africell (was orange)
- MTN
- Airtel
- Smile
- Uganda Telecom
1. VPNs still work fine (I'm using one right now, though its one I installed on a digitalocean instance - it's possible those receiving lots of traffic have now been blocked).
2. This tax is unaffordable for many Ugandans (it would be about 5% of the average wage here). Whatsapp is very popular here and this has impacted everybody I know. Most people I've talked to are using a free VPN (they aren't aware of the risks here).
I haven't done much analysis of the blocking yet but I will be doing a more in-depth post about this whole debacle in a few days.
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Long, harrowing and left me hankering for more. He covers Verdun in the later episodes.
The only way to avoid this was to get a dedicated IP which is an additional $59 / month.
I'm not sure why Mailgun couldn't detect this themselves, maybe they do now.
After some debate with more senior team members, I reset my password to something generic and gave it to them, but it sets a bad precedent for customers who should be educated into never giving their password, under any circumstances.
It only became clear he had blatantly copied other sites after he left, unfortunately (he was also sacked from future jobs for the same thing, I suspect).
He even had the audacity to claim an award for one of his rip-offs, including attending the vegas ceremony (IIRC). I really don't know how he slept at night.
I'm not going to name names as this was a long time ago and I'm hoping he's changed his ways.
sudo chmod ugo-x /usr/libexec/path_helper