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How long have you been doing this and has it caused you to get locked out your account at all? I used to use instagram on desktop only but the account kept getting suspended, which stopped happening once I reverted back to using the mobile app. Anecdotally heard this was happening with other people too. Would be useful if mobile web was a work around?

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Not parent, but I've been using the mobile web variant for a while and have had no issues with my account being locked. In the past I have used the desktop browser on rare occasions, but a majority of the account activities are done through the WebKit Firefox (iOS).

It's never happened, and I have 2 IG accounts, both running on FF Android.

Best part of using it in a browser is that I can open links in new tabs. So I dont have that issue where going back to the homepage causes the feed to refresh.

Yes I’ve also gotten locked out of my account for using their website

How did you go about getting it unlocked? Mine has been locked and now I suspect this is why, but I can’t get any sort of response from Instagram in any way.

I was trapped by a 'bug' that meant the verification code system was broke. After a couple weeks of no luck I coincidentally set up pi-hole on my laptop and it seemed to de-bug the page or do something to otherwise break the loop that had me stuck, which resulted in me getting my account back. At the moment I'm using insta on mobile again as I'm not convinced I can repeat the fix a second time but am keen to move my business off there and somewhere else

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