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You might be surprised just how subtly corporations will break accounts that they are suspicious of. There is a whole world of anti-bot measures that come acro
by jandrese 4y ago
You might be surprised just how subtly corporations will break accounts that they are suspicious of. There is a whole world of anti-bot measures that come across to humans as just slightly odd behavior or weird bugs. It can be weirdly capricious as well. For example, I recently was having trouble logging into a website and was having to do a ton of SMS re-authentications. When logging into the website using Chrome I was given SMS messages with a 15 minute timeout. When logging in with Firefox the same SMS verification message only had a 5 minute timeout. Several times I would go through the authentication flow and then the service would seem to just crash, loading only a blank page, but I'm pretty sure that was just an anti-bot measure kicking in. I eventually only got it to work normally by switching over to my Phone's hotspot. The website was just hating on my IP address for no disclosed reason.