when the website of a bank or investment acct blocks me for using Tor, I call and demand paper statements to ensure they have to bend over backwards & pay the mailing costs for their bad policy. They often work hard to get it to work electronically but I know they aren't going to stop blocking Tor so I don't even tell them I use Tor. They are totally stumped on my "access denied" error.
It's somewhat gratifying that the obnoxiously carelessly vague 403 forbidden "access denied" error message that Tor users face daily backfires on them. Tech support calls to banks are gratis for customers but internally like $100+ per call. Yet their own tech support doesn't know what the error means. They don't think to ask "are you using Tor?"
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@koherecoWatchdog The idea that a tech support call costs 100+ to run per call seems unrealistic. It is likely far far less than this.
Still its good to hear its costing the bank some money. but in the end that just means lower interest rates for its clients anyway so not sure it means much when all is said and done.
@koherecoWatchdog Interesting.. Might have to try to look it up sometime.
@freemo It makes no sense to me either, but I'm not in banking. Someone in banking tech told me the per call cost is astronomical for some reason.