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Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by Freedumbs »

Hizonner wrote: post #67
Freedumbs wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To create an OpenRouter account, you have to supply a phone number. Neither Anthropic or OpenAI required this. This prevents privacy aware users from signing up.

I use OpenRouter all the time on an account for which I never supplied a phone number, email address, or anything of the kind. Maybe that was because I used an Ethereum wallet to authenticate, and paid in cryptocurrency (well, if USDC counts as "cryptocurrency"). Which admittedly makes OpenRouter's nosebleed prices even higher in effect, and supports some organizations I'd really rather not. And it's an oldish accoun…

It's possible that there are geographic differences. I don't dispute your experience, just sharing mine. It would be nice to experiment with their platform.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by schmookeeg »

rspoerri wrote: post #22
PinguTS wrote: post #7

Why not using some other coding IDE with OpenRouter? There you can also use the models. You can even switch models easily depending on your needs and spent. There are OpenSource versions of CodeX. For example: * OpenCode: https://medium.com/codex/kickstart-opencode-with-openrouter-... * CodeX with OpenRouter: https://openrouter.ai/docs/cookbook/coding-agents/codex-cli

I dont know why people use openrouter ,instead of a monthly subscription, if they can. While i am barely able to use up my 100$ monthly subscription, i can easily spend 10$ a day on openrouter (200-300$/month). Using top-tier models on openrouter is so much more expensive from my experience then any subscription.

I can't use my Claude Code or GPT subscriptions for API access.

I don't want monthly subs to infrequently used models that I sometimes tap into.

...pretty much that's it. My 10 bucks at OpenRouter has lasted me several months for these edge cases.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by teknopaul »

chillfox wrote: post #23

Don’t worry about it, Anthropic is banned from releasing new models anyway. Try out some of the competitors, they are really good these days.

Yeah Claude was down I tried OpenCode and it seems reliable. Any one got any experience with large projects?

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by danillonunes »

rglullis wrote: post #35
iamphilrae wrote: post #4

I know it’s not ideal, but why not give the main competitor a go? I have great experience of using OpenAI Codex, and frequently switch between it and Claude on a whim, often playing them off against each other to review one another’s PRs.

> why not give the main competitor a go "If Lucifer decided not to take your soul, why not throw yourself at Mammon's feet instead?" We keep asking why society got to such this stage of decay, and I need to keep reminding myself that a lot of it is people who give away so much power to sociopaths in exchange of virtual trinkets .

"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.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by hatradiowigwam »

rglullis wrote: post #35
iamphilrae wrote: post #4

I know it’s not ideal, but why not give the main competitor a go? I have great experience of using OpenAI Codex, and frequently switch between it and Claude on a whim, often playing them off against each other to review one another’s PRs.

> why not give the main competitor a go "If Lucifer decided not to take your soul, why not throw yourself at Mammon's feet instead?" We keep asking why society got to such this stage of decay, and I need to keep reminding myself that a lot of it is people who give away so much power to sociopaths in exchange of virtual trinkets .

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Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by arprocter »

jasonkester wrote: post #45

It's amazing that companies still can't handle the concept of somebody moving to a different country but still using a credit card from their original country. I spent two days on the phone with Microsoft last year trying to find a way to pay them $700 to renew my lapsed Visual Studio subscription. I live in France and want to pay with a US card (or UK card or even a French card at this point), but because of some co…

Went through similar with my PlayStation account about a decade ago - couldn't figure out how to switch it from a UK card to a US one

Tried a few things, but eventually just gave up and opened a new account (fortunately I hadn't made many purchases)

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by rglullis »

danillonunes wrote: post #74
rglullis wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> why not give the main competitor a go "If Lucifer decided not to take your soul, why not throw yourself at Mammon's feet instead?" We keep asking why society got to such this stage of decay, and I need to keep reminding myself that a lot of it is people who give away so much power to sociopaths in exchange of virtual trinkets .

"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.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by pixel_popping »

For essential tools, never use your primary payment methods, always generate virtual cards, ask someone else to pass KYC for you if you are subjected to it (i.e your parents, wife or alternative networks if you know how). Never ever use your own IP for any service, sign-up straight from a shared VPN (for security & privacy reasons), the more people do this, the more they are "screwed".

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by tim-tday »

1) Try a competitor 2) next time have a fallback 3) Stay close enough to the code that you aren’t helpless when the tools go away

On the one hand humans are sort of useless without tools. On the other hand if we go limp and abdicate our ownership of our workflows we might as well be dead.

I have my primary rig, a secondary and I’m installing a local model on an old gaming rig with a GPU in it.

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