Layoutify causing accounts to get blocked

[seidhogg]

Hello,

I've been planning on installing Layoutify on a new machine after almost a year long brake from the extenison. My cautiousness in installing extensions, however, told me to check the reviews in Chrome store and on Reddit.

People are claiming that they are getting locked out/blocked on IG when using Layoutify.
@kurtextrem could you check on that?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/n60y83/does_layoutify_cause_your_ig_to_be_blocked/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/jei095/layoutify_for_instagram_improved_for_instagram/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/nzkafd/how_i_managed_to_fix_the_video_selfie/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/layoutify-improved-layout/nekeeojpcbiehcignddhindbgacbghmi

[kurtextrem]

I did not get locked since version 3.7.0.2 (24th of June), but I am aware since 2nd June 2021 (published here: https://github.com/kurtextrem/Layoutify-for-Instagram/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#350---2021-06-02). I have emailed back and fourth with some users and thought this is fixed (the mentioned Reddit threads are 2 to 10 months old, which hints it might be fixed now). Every here and then I got locked too (and needed to do the selfie verification)

In case people still get locked I am out of ideas and my last solution would be to pull the extension from the webstore to protect the users.

[neoOpus]

Same here!

[kurtextrem]

Same here!

When did that happen?

[neoOpus]

Same here!

When did that happen?

12 days ago and I tried several times to recover it unsuccessfully... and this is the second or third time and each time it happens just after I activate the extension to see my "likes", previously I thought it was a bug or false flag on Facebook servers that will be taken care of and since recovering the account wasn't hard then I kept this extension deactivated and from time to time I activated it (every few months)... so I can confirm that Facebook detect some activities and deactivate or ban the account.