Comment by ronsor
5 hours ago
Hetzner asking for ID is an outlier, probably inspired by German bureaucracy. I've never sent ID to a hosting provider personally. Many domain registrars accept payment in means that don't require ID, and offer WHOIS privacy for free.
I probably would not use Cloudflare if it had KYC simply because I do not want to be interrogated every time I try to do something meaningful online. It is a waste of time because criminals will integrate "verify with stolen identity" into their pipeline tomorrow, while legitimate users are stuck with the headaches.
An interstitial warning page is probably the happy medium, and what ngrok already uses now.
> Hetzner asking for ID is an outlier, probably inspired by German bureaucracy.
No, it was 100% their own fraud prevention. They blocked my account almost immediately after registration, and they refused to unblock it even after I sent them my ID. My best guess is that they really didn't like that I signed up with a Protonmail address.