[Aachen]

It varies a lot based on what I'm doing. Sites that rely on ads like english-language¹ recipes or health information have a lot of "you're European so you're blocked altogether" or "let me check that the connection is secure, ah wait, here is a captcha for you to solve" pages. Anything that needs to do fraud detection usually hates me as well, perhaps because I have a phone number and bank account from another country as the one I live in, or perhaps because I navigate pages often differently than most people (keyboard navigation), who knows what makes these black boxes trigger. That German ISPs have daily-rotating IP addresses, so there is absolutely nothing tying a previous request to the current request, may also be a factor

All in all, I'm someone who would benefit from a society not run by algorithms, where I can just pay up front for my use (no credit mechanisms, no fraud detection, no tracking ads), at least as an available option

¹ it's the language I think in the most and has many more resources than the local languages I speak

[account42]

Weird, I've not encountered region locks on recipe sites. From my experience it's mostly (smaller) news sites that do that.

[throwaway2037]

    > That German ISPs have daily-rotating IP addresses

This is interesting. What is the purpose? Security? Privacy?

[tpxl]

Preventing hosting from a home server without paying for a static IP.

[account42]

Whatever the reason, it's not unilaterally true. I've had the same IP for years on a normal consumer cable internet connection.