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It seems that Anthropic is growing so rapidly that they don't really care about losing a few customers here and there with false positives. I still think it's crazy that you can never speak with a human there, even after spending $200/month on their service.

> It seems that Anthropic is growing so rapidly that they don't really care about losing a few customers here and there with false positives.

While I am convinced that anything can be done better, it seems to me, that it it's close to impossible to do this well. If you look at ~customer service provided by ~FAANG (who had decades to build this out, and none of which had to deal with Anthropic level growth) it's never as good as we would like it to be.

Either they are all terribly incompetent at customer service. Or customer service at super big internal company scale, with tons of small-ish customers, is extremely hard.


I can call my ISP and someone will pick up within 5-10 minutes. Sometimes instantly. For a 40 euro/month contract.

These guys have millions of customers. At least in this country fast and competent customer service is the main factor that differentiates them from their competition, which is cheaper but can be a pain in the butt. This seems to be worth the extra 5-10 bucks to millions of people.

You just have to want to.


paying more just means your AI support agent uses Opus instead of Haiku

I cannot imagine Anthropic being able to afford Opus for customer support. They'd be bankrupt within a month.

Do they have human support for their corporate clients, at least?

They do. You get an account executive. And they can help you somewhat. As an example, a friend's startup lost all their access for a day while the AE tried to get them transferred from one kind of plan to another. Looking at it from the outside, it looks like any fast-growing startup just at a pace that is honestly quite unbelievable. They seem ridiculously successful.

I was unable to cancel their pro plan without paying for a missed month first. They kept trying to charge my card for few months.

They're behaving just like the progrsammers afraid of being part of the permanent underclass...

The regulatory body, ARCEP, has been very proactive since 2002 (!) on IPv6. The recent uptick is due to IPv6 obligations bundled in the 5G spectrum licences.

https://www.arcep.fr/la-regulation/grands-dossiers-internet-...


Persona is easy to implement, has all the compliance requirements, and is in line with market prices. ID verification will always be an afterthought, unfortunately.

SCF is still actively maintained, so it's nice that it exists!

The "OneDrive" app definitely has a nice document scanning tool.

> "An early version of Wisconsin’s age verification bill also included a ban on virtual private networks (VPN), which people have been using to circumvent online age checks. Lawmakers dropped this provision in February, though VPNs are becoming a target for regulators around the globe."

This seems like a very, very bad idea.


Interesting story, despite the clickbait title. Keep up the good work.

What’s interesting about it? Sassy kid acts without thinking, learns nothing. That’s the whole schtick.

Yes, that's the one. Their residential IPs service is one of the best ones, but their "ethically sourced proxies" claim seems dubious at best.


There was a research paper several years ago showing that the "residential IP" stuff is powered by botnets and compromised devices. Luminati is specifically called out.

Paper: https://xianghang.me/files/resi_paper.pdf Medium Article: https://medium.com/@xianghangmi/resident-evil-understanding-...


Historically, their residential proxies came from backdoored proxies of HolaVPN users.


OpenAI managed it way better, but we might have Microsoft to thank for that.


But isn't GitHub's perpetual demise Microsoft's fault?


We don't know any numbers.



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