1. Try to log onto a channel, but get presented with a "We've detected something out of the ordinary going on.
To continue using Discord" where my only option is to verify by phone, which I don't want to do.
2. Occasionally, I'll figure it's worth a try in incognito. I get a step further, only to read "New login location detected, please check your e-mail.". Go back to non-incognito, check email, open the verify link in an incognito window.
3. Instead of finally signing me in, it says "IP address authorized" and "If you followed this link after trying to login on the desktop or mobile app, please go back and try again.".
4. Fair enough, time to log in, again. Submit credentials, get presented with the bizzarely slow fade-in recaptchas. Fail twice, succeed on the third time. Horray! I can see the channel!
5. Finally try those other organisations invite links (in the form of discord.com/invite/org), but get "This invite may be expired, or you might not have permission to join.".
That sounds like your originating IP is linked to abuse, like accounts banned for ToS or botting. Slow-fade, harder captchas are another symptom of that (and could indicate Google/whatever-captcha-they-use also don't trust your IP). Is this over a VPN, Tor, or residential IP?
If you enable fingerprinting resistance/block their attempts to run a significant amount of privacy-violating JS, you risk permanent account lockouts. This includes non-VPN. You can get account lockouts for "suspicious" on standard, non-VPN IPs, without any recaptcha weirdness.
They may also ask for ID or birthday or phone at any time. This is not something I want in a casual chat app.
They are using an antiquated security and require capchas for VPN users. It's kind of lame. The IP ban should be removed after a day for abuse. It's an ignorant "security measure" and annoyance to users who also value a bit of privacy.
Same here. It's because everything is always incognito and I have uBlock installed. I avoid Discord as much as possible partially due to that.
But also the idea of sharing my life with yet another American company is really not appealing to me. I want to be able to express myself without the fear of it being recorded for whatever reason. Can't wait for Signal to introduce encrypted group chat...
1. Try to log onto a channel, but get presented with a "We've detected something out of the ordinary going on. To continue using Discord" where my only option is to verify by phone, which I don't want to do.
2. Occasionally, I'll figure it's worth a try in incognito. I get a step further, only to read "New login location detected, please check your e-mail.". Go back to non-incognito, check email, open the verify link in an incognito window.
3. Instead of finally signing me in, it says "IP address authorized" and "If you followed this link after trying to login on the desktop or mobile app, please go back and try again.".
4. Fair enough, time to log in, again. Submit credentials, get presented with the bizzarely slow fade-in recaptchas. Fail twice, succeed on the third time. Horray! I can see the channel!
5. Finally try those other organisations invite links (in the form of discord.com/invite/org), but get "This invite may be expired, or you might not have permission to join.".