Heres another link on this same topic, their commitment to “transparency by default” https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/security/transparency-b... Honestly it’s really admirable and I have nothing bad to say about them.
And how the location factors are decided is not shared with the staff, just vague hand waving of industry averages. This again is again in contradiction with their "transparency" value.
I can point out a lot more things. They might be transparent, but are not above exploiting folks from weaker economies.