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Keep Your Gigs Until Used!' and 'Pay Only *ONCE*! Never Any Rebilling!' 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Article retention has no number there and the FAQ was challenge-walled, so one figure is missing rather than guessed.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.blocknews.net/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'No Expiration! Keep Your Gigs Until Used!', 'Pay Only *ONCE*! Never Any Rebilling!', the 5 GB to 3,072 GB price ladder, 200 connections, seven server locations"},{"url":"https://blocknews.net/faq/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the FAQ returned a 403 bot challenge to every reader route tried (extractor, exa, contextdev, hyperbrowser, tinyfish, cfbr), so its retention figure is unread"},{"url":"https://blocknews.net/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"5 GB $1.99 through 3,072 GB $99.99; 'Pay Only ONCE! 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