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This seems like a bit of a silly reason to not trust a company. There's a small mountain of companies that won't let you register if you're behind a VPN, or using a less-common e-mail provider (ie: protonmail).

It's annoying but it's a bog standard technique for avoiding spam or fraud.

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> This seems like a bit of a silly reason to not trust a company.

A self-professed privacy-focused company that won't let privacy-conscious customers sign up does look a little sus.

Is there perhaps some type of KYC law where they operate? Either way I would think it would be best to explain right there on the page, why they can't do it.

I think if they told their customers they had to do KYC, they would lose a lot of customers.

I can buy expensive things to have delivered to a vacant house and run off in the night if I used a stolen credit card on a VPN, but a cheap digital service that can be cut off at anytime if there's fraud, can't handle a VPN.

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