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You smartasses banned the entire country of Uruguay, where I reside, from reading this. http://imgur.com/sdd6Mlv If anything, this is a huge red flag indicating that I shouldn't care about anything Deliveroo does.

Don't be an asshole, don't geofence people for no real clear reason

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I intentionally geofence most countries for certain initiatives where the high probability audience is in my country, U.S. (for cybersecurity reasons). Choosing a "deny" rule keeps out a lot of the crap one otherwise has to deal with (probes, scans, connections, DDOS, etc.

I think that's a terrible thing to do... There are real people which might have to find workarounds just to know what your initiative is about.

I'm also curious about the type of your initiatives, are they really local? Programming stuff isn't limited to the US[1].

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#methodology (only 25% of the stack overflow 2018 survey responses were from North America in general)

I see your point, but it isn't as bad as it may seem. Specifically I deal with B2B companies whose sales audience and customer base are solely the US (due to operational "boots on the ground" type of work)

US, that country that has blessed the rest of the world with cybersecurity.

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