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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • With removable batteries is that there is actually a legitimate reason for getting rid of them, in that it’s much harder to waterproof a device with a removable battery.

    I’d still like to see the option available, but I can at least understand why it’s not from a practical standpoint. The only reason carrier locks exist is to increase the cost of change for the end user, making them less likely to switch providers.
















  • This is almost certainly the cause.

    Most captchas treat connections from a known VPN exit node as a red flag because most of the spammers use them to hide their location and it’s a pretty small minority of the total traffic so not many people will complain about it. It’s also way easier to do that than try and find some heuristic way to identify malicious behavior.

    If they also get some extra data from you that they can sell once you disable it, then all the better for the company too.