supercheesecake

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[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes it was. It needed to be connected somehow to make the purchase.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do any VPN providers cover this?

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife types with her fists when I’m trying to have Zoom meetings.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 65 points 1 year ago (8 children)

When you’ve done everything that’s reasonable, and no one in power listens, so have to become unreasonable. And people say, why can’t you just be reasonable?! 😕

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if both apps and webpages have access to the phone date/time for logs and to time stamp purchases etc. And Amazon use that to decide you’re not in the place your VPN is telling them.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait … how do you have the native app on iOS?! Is there a TestFlight link you could share?

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks. Still happened with location services disabled phone-wide.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cheers, thanks for the very helpful info.

We paid for Nord quite a while ago with some special deal. I haven’t heard great things about them since though so might be time to ditch and pay for something better. I’ve heard Proton is good as well.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah my payment method is US credit card. But Audible members get a credit (book) each month to buy a book with in addition to use physical money.

Everything for that account is US.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

This might be it. I gave up and purchased from my desktop and the same steps worked straight away without issue. Maybe Amazon has access to phone info that I’m unaware of.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nah the CC and billing address for my US account are fully local there. My AU and US accounts are totally seperate and everything is local for each.

I’ve tried both using their apps on my phone and the browser (Safari with privacy relay) with the same result (with VPN etc etc).

I agree, I can’t se how they’re doing this. Must be something I’ve overlooked. Or some new internet black magic they’re employing.

EDIT: Or the search result for the book I want isn’t actually available in the USA and they’ve just messed that up (since I’m searching from the US as far as they can see). I guess I could try buying a different book

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