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Ask HN: Is it possible to be profiled as a bot?

1 pointsby jojojafover 1 year ago
Sometimes I wonder if I&#x27;m being profiled as a bot. Is this possible? If so, where would such a profile exist?<p>Here is the evidence I have;<p>* PayPal kicked me out recently and they won&#x27;t give a reason despite me trying pretty hard to get one. * Wikipedia has my IP blacklisted for editing. No idea why. * It took a long time talking to customer services last year to convince Discord that I wasn&#x27;t a bot when I tried to sign up * I have two 2-3 year old Gmail accounts, both of which always have empty spam folders. (I checked, it&#x27;s not a settings thing. There are a couple of other people online who also have this problem and can&#x27;t solve it)<p>Am I just imagining that these things could be related somehow?

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LinuxBenderover 1 year ago
I am just guessing but what you are describing sounds like you had the unfortunate luck of getting a DHCP or CG-NAT address that was being used by an aggressive and highly abusive bot. It may be worth looking into if you can release that IP and get a new one while also clearing out all forms of caches on all devices.
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