I’ve already spent more than $500 on credits and got a ban for 52,000 seconds just for turning on the VPN.

Yesterday, I worked with the free big pickle model for about 3–4 hours before lunch, then I exhausted the limit and went to do other things. When I came back in the evening, there were 2000 seconds left until the limit reset, but it was already very late, so I went to bed. When I woke up and sat down at my computer, I immediately turned on the VPN — Psiphon — and my IP address changed to French. Then I turned on Opencode and wanted to continue from where I left off yesterday, so I wrote “continue” in the chat, but I was very surprised when I immediately received a new limit on “Free Use”. Exceeded, subscribe to repeat in 50,459 seconds — attempt # 1. How is this possible? Is it just because I turned on the VPN and my IP changed? That’s complete nonsense. I got the restriction because of a bug in your system, which decided that I was deceiving it.

No source file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing the free-use limit after changing the IP with Psiphon, then trace where the service records usage and applies the restriction. Done means identifying whether the VPN change incorrectly triggers the limit and adding a regression test or a clearly documented diagnosis.