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by dazc 1542 days ago
I assumed because I was not an EU citizen?
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tommek4077 1542 days ago
Hetzner: Excuse us Mr. S. Pamking from Armenia, paying with a credit card of an elderly french lady, could you please send us some id? After that we will gladly spin up your 100 VPS Mail-Servers.
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erklik 1542 days ago
> Excuse us Mr. S. Pamking from Armenia, paying with a credit card of an elderly french lady, could you please send us some id?

Amazon's cool with it. I guess they don't care as much? I do wonder where the fraud prevention requirements come from. It's an interesting question if they are even for fraud prevention.

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belter 1542 days ago
No, they ask for EU citizens also.
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mkl 1542 days ago
I am not an EU citizen, but Hetzner didn't ask me for any ID.
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belter 1542 days ago
How long ago was that?

"Well, there goes the Privacy - Hetzner Hosting" https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/b5qp08/well...

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mkl 1542 days ago
Okay, looks like it was just before that.
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