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by YetAnotherNick 843 days ago
Quite the opposite actually. Hetzner asks my passport to verify me.
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They do take abuse very seriously. If die Polizei asks for your info, because you've been operating an illegal torrent tracker, they could hand it over, having verified it with your id.
Yes, I have never been asked ID by AWS and all. In fact it is very easy to create a fake ID to get 1 year free for various services in AWS.