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Whenever I visit Facebook now, I get the following message or suspension warning (note the link is from someone else's instagram account posted on reddit and I only link to it because it's the complete warning at a glance)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/18bsjib/we_suspect_automated_behaviour_on_your_account/

I have no idea what they're talking about or why I'm suddenly getting the message. I originally assumed it was related to my VPN but apparently not.

Anybody else suddenly getting this warning or know what might be going on?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

VPN?

Most VPNs use a specific subset of IP addresses. Many bad actors utilize VPNs to obfuscate the origin of the malicious activity, which kind of poisons the well, so to speak.

Like what I'm using mulvad VPN, a bunch of sites will flag me as potentially suspicious traffic. This is, no doubt, because mulvad VPN is a legit VPN, so bad actors are using it, because they know they can get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I can confirm I have already some experience with the fact of VPN usage being flagged as a high change of automated traffic (except it was TOR, which is pretty much identical in this context).

Discord put me a wealth of captcha, Wikipedia refused edition of pages (even with my account. Which IMO looks like an oversight). And many pages just had captchas even when not trying to log-in.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I got the same message with uBlock. The site also goes apeshit in some places because I assume it tries to circumvent my adblocker by changing classes in the dom. Either way - at this point I don’t care any more.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't get the message but Facebook does go apeshit for me too.

It's a good reminder to get off facebook

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Indeed. Push the fediverse. Maybe setup an instance for your friends. Friendica is said to be kind of similar? Havent tried though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah I have started getting this recently. No idea why, I barely even use the site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The irony of linking to your Reddit post.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

It's not my Reddit post though - just the result of a google search to see if anyone else was experiencing the same issue for no apparent reason.