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To make the community more secure and more fair, we enabled firewall, its a cloud service to help us stopping suspicious ip address and suspicious devices.
How it works?
Above is an example, if i login the forum normally, it means i logged in with real ip and real device, nothing wrong with that at all.
If i used some vpn or proxy, i might be able to hide my ip and/or my device id, so if i only faked my ip or only hide my device id, i am fine too.
However, when i both hided my device and faked my ip, i got rejected.
Oh my gosh, you guys can actually read my device id? nah, no worries, it's not your computer id nor your mobile id, but your browser id. So if you believe its not safe here, just re-install your browser, you got a brand new device id, well, all other websites can read your device id too though.
So, why do people use vpn or proxy to hide their real ips and devices? for security of course, in this way, they are hiden themselves.
for example, we had limit 24 hour register on one ip to 2, means you can create 2 accounts a day, but i want to create 30 a day, what should i do? fake my ip of course, its totally ok if you just wanted one or two more accounts, but its not fair if someone created 5-6 accounts a day, they might be able to cheat on contest votes, ban hopping, or even spamming.
Another example is Password guessing. as you might have noticed, if i tried logging in with wrong username or password more than 5 times, the forum would stop me from more guessing in 15 minutes. However, if i changed my ip, cleared my history, faked my device id, i will be able to try another 5 times, and another 5 more...
There might be mistakes though, so if you believe your accounts got rejected wrong, just send me an emal ([email protected]) telling me your username, i will try what i can do, however, if you have more than 6 accounts, i will only try setting 3 of them free.
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