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Unfortunately I can't really comment on this, but would like to add an additional datapoint of someone wanting to know how I can get in touch with IG when I wan
by exikyut 9y ago
Unfortunately I can't really comment on this, but would like to add an additional datapoint of someone wanting to know how I can get in touch with IG when I want/need to as well.
In my case, a user's account I was browsing through one day suddenly stopped loading, and when I reloaded the page the account suddenly showed that it had been removed... yet as soon as I logged out (translation: used incognito) it loaded just fine.
Eventually everything fixed itself so this is no longer an active issue, but I always wanted to know what caused my account to be momentarily shadowbanned from accessing that one particular user's account. It was an IG I'd found elsewhere and was just browsing through on the website; besides viewing I didn't interact in any other way at all. Maybe it was that my account has never opened the app, or perhaps that I use the Imagus preview extension which fetches image/video data using the same API calls spammers do...
- nwatson 9y agoI'd guess more likely that some local in-browser state during your session "flipped" to indicate the target account of interest didn't exist after a failed API interaction or a logic error. Your short term switch to an incognito tab created a new session without the flaw, making the target account visible. Your regular-tab interaction eventually refreshed state that made the target account appear. ... that's my attempt at a most plausible explanation, and doesn't involve any purposeful blacklisting of the target account on IG's part.