Hello all! I recently decided I would like to stop being a freeloader and start supporting a couple of my favorite creators. So I go to Patreon and register an account (never had one), and the moment I go to confirm my email address I get another email saying they detected "suspicious activity" and they are deactivating my account. As a note, I use a VPN to bypass some of my country's stupid censorship and restrictions, and because I like being anonymous, especially when dealing with nsfw stuff.
So I searched and it turns out Patreon does not like its users using VPNs for some reason. All the posts I could find around the net suggested registering and using an account without a VPN. This of course, is not going to happen. Patreon, and any site, have no business being snoops and try to force me to show them my real location, connection or anything else. Its just completely unnecessary for the only reason I want to use their stupidly strict site: to give them money so that my favorite creators can take a cut. But I digress.
What I wanted to ask by making this thread is one, does everyone who uses Patreon to support creators with monthly payments do so without a VPN? (I find that hard to believe) and two, if not then how can I go about creating an account and subscribe to a creator without getting marked for "suspicious activity"?
In case anyone wonders I did write a ticket to their support about the issue and I received a clearly ai-generated answer that asked me to give them my personal details (including the number of any credit cards I have used or would like to use!) to "confirm the integrity of the account", as if my newly-created account had any previous transactions they could compare that info to! I have never felt so insulted by a company's support, and I did let them know of my displeasure in a reply email which of course did not contain any of the info the bot supposedly named "Ripley" had asked me for.
So I searched and it turns out Patreon does not like its users using VPNs for some reason. All the posts I could find around the net suggested registering and using an account without a VPN. This of course, is not going to happen. Patreon, and any site, have no business being snoops and try to force me to show them my real location, connection or anything else. Its just completely unnecessary for the only reason I want to use their stupidly strict site: to give them money so that my favorite creators can take a cut. But I digress.
What I wanted to ask by making this thread is one, does everyone who uses Patreon to support creators with monthly payments do so without a VPN? (I find that hard to believe) and two, if not then how can I go about creating an account and subscribe to a creator without getting marked for "suspicious activity"?
In case anyone wonders I did write a ticket to their support about the issue and I received a clearly ai-generated answer that asked me to give them my personal details (including the number of any credit cards I have used or would like to use!) to "confirm the integrity of the account", as if my newly-created account had any previous transactions they could compare that info to! I have never felt so insulted by a company's support, and I did let them know of my displeasure in a reply email which of course did not contain any of the info the bot supposedly named "Ripley" had asked me for.