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instagram blocks your account for 24 hours if you use this plugin now

Open fixmycomp opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

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Description of the problem

when you use this plugin it works fine for about 30 photos (just hover zoom nothing else) then it stops working and you will find the app has marked you as a bot and blocks you for 24 hours from doing anything

Url of the page where the problem occurs (not the image url)

instagram.com (logged in)

Steps to reproduce the problem (include image url here)

  1. go to instagram.com in chrome latest.
  2. hover zoom a photo in discover
  3. after 25 or so photo zooms you will no longer be able to zoom. your account on the phone app will spam you with blocked for 24 hours.

OS version, extension version (Chrome only, Firefox is not supported)

win 20 x64 20h2 / chrome latest 92.45

fixmycomp avatar Jul 25 '21 03:07 fixmycomp

I've tried viewing ~50 photos and my account didn't get blocked. Maybe there's something specific to your IP or you are using it much more often then I do.

extesy avatar Jul 29 '21 16:07 extesy

Last week i got banned for 24h 😢 Instagram plug-in needs some optimization, it calls the API too often. I'll try to fix it this week.

GrosPoulet avatar Jul 29 '21 16:07 GrosPoulet