[bmicraft]

> I'm using a browser extension to show full size of images on social media when hover and Instagram went crazy about it, warning about unusual activities and threatening to lock my account. I looked into it to see if the extension does any scrapping behind but no, it all seems fine.

I've used such an extension and found dragging the curser over your screen might fire like 25 requests. You might simply be rate-limited.

[mrtksn]

Maybe, I just speculate over the reason of course but I haven't noticed anything strange like that. That said, the pattern of requests from the client should be obvious to the backend, the preventive measures can be designed around it and the rate Is one of the obvious signals.

Removed the extension anyway