Conversion sounds too soft and they probably have an army of lawyers to argue that it's not somehow not technically Conversion in $jurisdiction. "Theft by extortion" is probably better since they are saying agree to the terms or your computer isn't yours, your files aren't yours.

> Access to feeds from this network are restricted due to continued abuse of the service, which brings down the performance of feeds for everyone else. You'll need to use a verification token or use a different network to restore access

Ahh, good to know that my regular ISP got banned for something I have no clue about. Can't even read the blog.

Same here but I'm using a ssh based proxy to avoid having my local ISP data mine my web traffic. Definitely not going to turn it off either to read a blog.

I really wish admins banned based on actual behavior instead of IP address != residential/mobile.

I get that sort of stuff quite a lot - its because my workplace uses a proxy to connect to the intranet, and traffic routed by that proxy is often blocked (zscaler)

I use a medium sized Australian ISP and got the same, maybe they just have whole regions blocked...?

Probably CGNAT, "Carrier-Grade NAT": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT

Huge, huge numbers of machines behind a single external IP mean that your internet access carries all their reputation by proxy. Since switching off Comcast to a smaller fiber company that uses CGNAT I've seen somewhat more Cloudflare challenges.

I'm also blocked, but I'm in the UK use a fairly niche and small ISP (uno.uk)

I got that at first but it worked after a refresh. So it doesn't look like an actual ban.

Interesting choice to go with Prometheus directly, especially when other TSDBs have "native" support for OTLP ingestion support.

At least, in Japan, they're generally as advertised.

Depends on the country. In Japan, you could be considered a "public nusicance" and be tossed behind bars for a bit.

I'll get asked where I identify as "from" since I've moved around a lot as a kid, and without fail I'll respond 'Detroit'.

There's so much history and culture to explore; along with tons of huge parks.

If I had to leave Tokyo, would definitely be up there.

If I read the fine print correctly, you could receive 15k relocation assistance!

I would wonder if this could also be used as a kind of tripwire, where legitimate users won't present CAPCHA tokens, etc. But fake connections will.

I have no clue if this worked at all, but in college I made a site that had a checkbox that said “check this box if you’re human” and then hid it with bizarre CSS. If they checked the box, we errored out. I didn’t really do telemetry at all, so no clue if that worked at all, but yeah, I’ve had the same thought!

AKA: the fast track to setting disbarred and sanctioned.

As someone with a bank account in the US, they absolutely do ask you for your SSN now-days.

Hell, even my Japan Post Bank account asked my for my SSN.

Generally, this disclaimer is required for products that are released under the "Google" name but without any kind of support guarantees for enterprise customers.

That or it's a personal project that IARC decided could live in the workspace project.

Disc: Former Googler

> but without any kind of support guarantees for enterprise customers

Also known as every single Google product