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by SV_BubbleTime 1988 days ago
> In fact many people who needed private repositories were already using GitLab because of the limitations of GitHub private repositories and its pricing.

Today I learned how similar to Iranians I am.

> many accounts were blocked and had no further access to their private repositories and gists even if they used VPN after that.

Can’t access with VPN? How?

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> Can’t access with VPN? How?

Your account is unable to access _any_ private repository after being flagged as being from a sanctioned country. That's regardless of where you're actually accessing your account from.

While you could create a new account, you still couldn't grant that new account access (since you can no longer access private repositories from your primary account). Also a new account still runs the risk of getting flagged if you accidentally access the account without a VPN enabled just once.

Oh, I see. Well that’s super lame. This requires a great deal of cooperation on Microsoft’s part.