XFinity's website for new internet service blocks VPN and automated traffic with a heavy hand. I've had trouble accessing my own account, even when logged in as a paying customer, depending on if I'm using a VPN.
This was probably originally meant to keep wide-scale pricing information secret from competitors, but it sure has the nice side effect of making it hard to verify their coverage promises.
Shouldn't we push for a world that doesn't depend on independently smart and well off random people to exhaustively track which things are objectively and clearly lies? Why is there not a government group whose entire job is to seek out businesses doing shitty things and claw back unjustly earned profits?
A friend of mine had a project that would get it's rotating ip addresses by connecting to wifi of the parade of Google busses that dropped off and picked up in front of his office.
This was probably originally meant to keep wide-scale pricing information secret from competitors, but it sure has the nice side effect of making it hard to verify their coverage promises.