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I too was banned. Two key details: 1. I was unbanned via their appeal form, but 2. I had created a new account in the meantime which I’ve used since. If you need a debit card, use Mercury https://www.mercury.com . You can create as many as you want. I use a unique card for each subscription. (If you’re thinking "oh, they’re like privacy.com," you’re mistaken. Privacy.com gets blocked by merchants; mercury works. No i…
You can make another account and use a virtual Revolut card for payment. Otherwise use GLM 5.2 with OpenCode or Codex.
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Anthropic request ID verification and OpenAI requires phone number in Europe. I don't know about other parts of the world, but I don't see any issues with OpenRouter.
Again, neither Anthropic or OpenAI asked for PII. Only my payment information. Open Router requires a phone to get an account, which is why I'll never have one.
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"If a company doesn't want you as a consumer you might consider go to a competitor" doesn't sound like giving them power, quite the opposite.
Leaving Anthropic to go to OpenAI is as pointless move as it can be. If both options you are considering are cut from the cloth, financed by the same oligarchs and playing the same game from the same elites, then the game is rigged.
The part that would bother me most is not the ban itself, but having no idea what to change. “Policy violation” could mean VPN, billing risk, location, or actual usage.
All online services are like this. I used to sell stuff on eBay. Had multiple accounts randomly closed. Never did find out why.
Not defending it, just sharing perspective from having worked on some fraud/abuse mitigation projects.
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yes, I'm getting paid handsomely for delivering software faster than every before, using llm's. If you mistake that for marketing, then so be it.
I hope you write in your contracts that you have 0 liability.
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Leaving Anthropic to go to OpenAI is as pointless move as it can be. If both options you are considering are cut from the cloth, financed by the same oligarchs and playing the same game from the same elites, then the game is rigged.
It depends whether OP is making a grandiose and principled stand rejecting the entire AI industry, the billionaires who control our society, and the complete sham that capitalism has become… or just wants to build an app without worrying about being banned again.
Just sign up to Ollama Cloud, use GLM-5.2. $20/month gives you something on par with Opus (if not better) with quotas so high I'm yet to hit.