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 Yeah. I wanted to show my kid Sarutobi, which used to be an awesome way to stack a few sats. Now it’s tied to ZBD and I can’t do that anymore. 
 I know I said Id try not to shit to hard on custodians but they make it so easy.  
 This is what happens if you try to score a few sats using a VPN. And if I turn off my VPN it will block me anyway because of my geographic location.
https://image.nostr.build/94fb1c25ab661933bb1cfaecaf2330a6f83ff252055317966a5213037819629f.jpg 
 Fuuuuuuck that shit.  
  there's literally antithetical to damn near every reason I got into bitcoin and why I enjoy nostr. The freedom. That legacy bullshit of geo-restricions is so counter productive and reeks of complience bro shit that im embeerased to have ever used the damned platform when I started running a nostream realy. Fuck.  
 I dont have to use it or recomend it but damn thats annoying.  
 I'll try to withdraw in a few days over a VPN and see what happens from the ZBD app. 
 ZBD works over my VPN (for now) but third-party apps like Sarutobi don’t. 
 Hmm that's not a ZBD created game though. It's a third party dev using the ZBD API I believe. Maybe ask the developer about that specific issue? 
 I won’t because I already know what their answer will be. 
 I'll email the dev. 
 Sure, here’s what you can say:

My friend is trying to earn sats for playing Sarutobi, but your partnership with ZBD is preventing him from doing this. He lives in a region that ZBD doesn’t serve, so he has to trick their server into letting him login by using a VPN to mask his location to connect his gamer tag. Your app won’t let him use a VPN to collect sats. Please allow him sidestep ZBD’s compliance rules, because he’s just a humble freedom-loving pleb. Thank you. 
 What about your IP address? 🧐🧐🧐 
 Please provide proof. You know, so we don't have to trust me bro.