WaPo article: https://archive.is/wip/sgViP
Company owner Elon Musk tweeted that the change was a “temporary emergency measure” to deter third-party scraping of data from the social media platform. “We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!” Musk wrote.
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Maybe it's by MAC address or whatever but if I create an account it instantly gets banned
That would be great, because you can easily spoof your MAC address.
I assume you do wipe your cookies, use different browsers, don't use the same phone for authentication, etc.?