If your IP (and possible your browser) looks “suspicious” or has been used by other users before, you need to add additional information for registration on gitlab.com, which includes your mobile phone number and possibly credit card information. Since it is not possible to contribute or even report issues on open source projects without doing so, I do not think any open source project should use this service until they change that.

Screenshot: https://i.ibb.co/XsfcfHf/gitlab.png

  • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
    134·
    9 months ago

    Wait. Wtf does it need to be US specifically? So the goverment has full access to the data or what?

    • AndrenikousEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      Probably so other governments don’t have full access.

      • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
        11·
        9 months ago

        Well, EU or some countries like Switzerland dont allow themselves access to the service.

    • peasntanks@lemmy.ml
      2·
      9 months ago

      Export controls or legal compliance, most likely. Export controls because the code may be a protected technology, or compliance because the company doesn’t have gdpr or some other legal framework.