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by Glyptodon 119 days ago
I tried signing up for Instagram once because for some reason there are a lot small businesses in artsy spaces (jewelry, etc.) who basically make it the main way to interact with them (or did) and I got banned almost instantly for no reason I could discern. Kind of gave up at that point (well, after trying to go through their "show an ID process" and it not working) and if I want to see some artist's insta I ask my wife. Don't care that much about the agency stuff, but their account management situation is indeed totally broken.
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Switch off your ad blocker/pi hole temporarily..

I tried three times of getting insta-banned before getting advised here to do the same.

In a similar vein I made an account on ebay once years ago, and inside a day I was banned for "unpaid seller fees"

On my one day old account that had never done a transaction???

Same here, I've not been able to open an account, it's a bit frustrating.