“We suspect automated behaviour on your account” (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] marius851000@lemmy.mariusdavid.fr 2 points 1 year 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.