I also had to do a chargeback recently because I was double billed and Anthropic refused to refund me. This seems very frequent from what I’m reading here, I wonder if Stripe will step in or something because they must be getting absolutely blasted with chargebacks and surely this should be affecting their reputation right? Not sure how the banking side of things works.

As a Spaniard, this also happens to me. You can either use a VPN or just switch DNS servers to one that doesn’t have anycast nodes in Spain.

Cloudflare’s authoritative DNS uses EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) to return different IP pools based on where the query originates. Spanish resolvers get IPs from a range that La Liga blocks. If your recursive resolver is physically outside Spain (or you use DoH/DoT to tunnel to one), Cloudflare returns a different, unblocked pool.

AdGuard DNS works well for this.

I looked into this a while back and IIRC, the consolidated legislation doesn’t cover all legislation but only a handful.

Also, in my experience (having built in this space before), regulations aren’t really the issue. Court rulings are, because there’s no open data for them in Spain. And the potential users for a paid product (legal professionals) already know the law; the key players (big law firms) have their own databases of annotated and verified court rulings and other documents.

I like the idea but the fake scarcity really puts me off. Most technical people are usually very wary of it, and that seems like your target audience.

had to pump up the available spots and do some hot fixes on the fronted. my apologies pal. i'm learning idea validation atm.

I loved WTR as a child in Spain! (This was like 15 years ago tho)

WTR was still on air 15 years ago? I'm getting old.

I’m 26, probably terminally online and a professional software engineer too and I just accept cookies every single time because it’s the lowest friction path to just get the banner out of the way. Too bad for those sites tho, because I use uBlock origin on the browser, whitelist cookies by site (all cookies are otherwise always blocked everywhere) and use an always-on VPN to route all my network traffic to my PiHole DNS server.

Maybe it’s a little bit overkill but I set it all up once and only have to whitelist sites every once in a while so it’s not really an annoyance. Besides, I’m not 100% sure now but I’d say that just using uBlock is enough (if properly configured) to prevent cookie-based tracking so my setup is definitely over-engineered.

I love Claude but both the desktop and the web apps are incredibly janky when compared with their OpenAI counterparts (I won’t even comment on Gemini’s because it’s also incredibly broken and unreliable).

Start times are atrocious, long conversations literally break rendering (and I’m using the desktop app on a MacBook Pro with an M3 Pro CPU and 36 GB of RAM so an electron app shouldn’t feel so janky so frequently, right?).

IMHO they just don’t care right now (and I get it from their perspective) but I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of low hanging fruit they could fix to make the experience 5x or even 10x smoother. Claude Code (TUI) is also another memory hog and I’ve even had Ghostty literally crash with enough open sessions.

Fortunately Anthropic models are also incredibly so at least I’ve been able to speedrun my own desktop client using Tauri and fix many of the issues I encounter every day. I might release it at some point.

Is this technique of spamming with vibe-coded “directories” really working? Genuinely curious

We have to start banning users who do this