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garlandcrow

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    Ask HN: DoNotPay siphoning from bank account, recourse?

    I installed DoNotPay over a year ago and just now noticed they started taking 3$/mo since December despite having uninstalled a year ago and have no emails or notice or anything fr…

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    Comment #20069446

    This same experience happened to me 6mos ago as well, actually I tend to read this online every month or so. No response from them for weeks, they without warning locked and delete…

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    Comment #19214070

    Hey drcongo, I'll tell you anything you want to know about my case either public or private. At least in Tokyo I know plenty of people who are running PG on DO in a docker instance…

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    Comment #19213905

    Thanks for the message, I will send you an email with the details if you want to look into it. I'll gladly add any resolution etc to the write-up I am doing. Thanks.

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    Comment #19213902

    I don't know about other providers, but I don't how the handling of any false positive from flagging is to not give any warning beforehand, destroy all instances, and not even give…

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    Comment #19213884

    Hi had heard a few stories like this here too but I figured it was people doing spamming or gambling or something like that. We are a biotech startup and also around $1k per month …

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    Comment #19206245

    Agreed, I have contacted them before over the 2 years and always they responded quickly. They responded w/in 24hrs and said that someone from "security and trust" team would review…

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    Comment #19206169

    You have to have a data layer stored somewhere, are you saying to not store it on digital ocean? All this is a moot point when they destroy your instances and lock your account...

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    Comment #19206097

    Oh, I did have backups luckily off of DigitalOcean (I will have full details in my post), but I have a huge problem with them marketing how great they are to startups and having a …

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    Ask HN: DigitalOcean Destroyed All My Data, Any Legal Recourse?

    I will follow up with a long post documenting timeline etc and all correspondence with them (it's not that much since they never respond). I have been a (paying) DigitalOcean user …