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Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Seriously surprised no one has said this yet, but overzealous companies sometimes flag mobile ISPs just for being mobile ISPs. I have T-Mobile as my home internet provider and I deal with this fairly often.

I take it as a sign of less than great security. Users on mobile ISPs tend to change IPs a lot, meaning implementing blocks like this is lazy and unhelpful. At best, they delay a bad actor until they flip a switch. At worst, they impede or completely block legitimate users such as yourself.

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Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I remember that Paypal locked my account close to Christmas because I bought the product on a laptop using a tethered mobile access. Paypal detected that I was not using a standard connection and froze the account. That would be fine but even the support team at PayPal couldn’t remove that flag even if I provided my full identity etc.

Since then I never used Paypal.

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- DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh yea, that could explain why Uber keeps blocking me the one time I needed it, but lyft worked fine tho. Idk how it is now, haven’t needed those services for a long time.
  
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sylver_dragon@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

have T-Mobile as my home internet provider and I deal with this fairly often.

I have the same ISP and the same issue. I believe a lot of the issue is that T-Mobile uses CGNAT on their network. This means that your public IP is shared with a lot of other people and it means your “location” (based on your public IP) can jump around from time to time. I’ve had Netflix get bitchy about this before as my connection seemed to be coming from Maryland instead of Virginia and their records indicate that I’m not a terrible driver.

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