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Colo scams are pretty common. Some percentage of people will offer to send expensive laptops, and the scammers can discard the rest of "interested customers".

It is inviable to colo old laptops, a regulatory nightmare - Hetzner would NEVER accept those in their datacenters. It is also absurd to think they are partnering with Hetzner to begin with.

It makes no sense to believe they will even EXPORT laptops from Europe to the US if you choose the US location. It just makes no sense, so I don't get why I am getting downvoted.

This is CLEARLY a scam.

There is no way they are partnering with Hetzner, or charging just 7€/month flat rate... they specifically want to know the model of the laptop, and offer to send send a courrier to your door...

Session is not similar to Signal.

Session aims to provide anonymity, Signal aims to provide privacy.

Internet mostly works in Spain when there is a match: one can see traffic figures from the mayor exchange points: they are unaffected.

Big businesses are unaffected, since LaLiga will quickly reverse any block that impacts popular websites and risks triggering significant public outcry.

Most people in Spain don’t care — and many aren’t even aware of the overly broad blocks.

Cloudflare and RootedCON are challenging this in court, but it may take many years before a final outcome is reached.

Well, I can tell you that in my country, a significant portion of the population sees it as a status symbol.

Uh? I live in a first world country (Spain) and the minimum wage is lower than the base iPhone Air price.

Of course a lot of people can not afford it.

You are in a bubble: the anglosphere. In most of the world, the iPhone does not dominate the market.

I have no doubt that other providers use latency from probes as a data point. But IPinfo allows way more weight from this in their calculations, probably because they have developed their own reliable network, unlike most competitors.

Your service, like many others, accepts as valid most intentionally fake geolocation data provided by networks. I am sure you know this anyway, so no need to mislead saying "we do the same".

They are not the cheapest, but most often will be one of the most accurate thanks to their latency triangulation.

They sell an alternative to AWS, but their website is hosted at AWS.

Also, pointing the MX record to smtp.google.com will not help with receiving email.

Governments do not even need any of the providers to comply, they can access global NetFlow data. This is conveniently not discussed by any commercial VPN provider.

3G (which nowadays is 3.5G) is sufficient for you only because everyone else is on 4G or 5G.

You are using present tense, but there is not an opt-out option right now, and zero reasonably accesible documentation about it exists.

Rolling out such a significant change with just a few days advance notification shows an incredible level of incompetence.

This article is assuming that they are being truthful and indeed had access to limited hardware resources, which is doubtful to say the least.

I am surprised that no one has mentioned the most obvious alternative: Bing Cache.

It is not as complete as Google's, but it is usually good enough.