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It's definitely not new, they required an id 20 years ago. (From EU citizens, so it's not about the country either).
by jsnell 4y ago
It's definitely not new, they required an id 20 years ago. (From EU citizens, so it's not about the country either).
- dividedbyzero 4y agoFor what it's worth, I have a VM on their cloud offering and I've never had to provide them with an ID.
- thatwasunusual 4y agoSo how do you explain that I never have had to show an ID?
- detaro 4y agoJust because Hetzner has had processes that can involve ID checks if deemed necessary for a long time doesn't mean that they check ID for everyone.
- thatwasunusual 4y agoI understand that. I'm trying to figure out why I'm - and several others - are "special."
- nine_k 4y agoA large statistical model, likely run by some third-party attestation service, said so. It's mostly used to refuse service where governments require that (say, no service for North Korea), or to people known to repeatedly do fraud, etc. But false positives occur; sometimes an inspection by a human helps (send an ID).