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Comment by poopooracoocoo | Hacker News Reader

At least a Pinterest account is truly free. You're not asked to "build connections to prove your identity".

Even connections won't save you anymore. I have an account with over a hundred connections but now they want to see a government ID for whatever reason. Won't let me do anything on the website until I do.

When they inevitably do this to me, I will tell them to delete my account instead.

When I log in, I get something like this and then I close the tab and move on :)

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Access to your account has been temporarily restricted

Why did this happen?

We take proactive actions to protect you when we detect potential unauthorized access or other activity that doesn’t comply with our policies.

What can I do next?

We first need to verify your identity to ensure your account safety. To regain access to your account, please submit a government-issued ID.

Learn more about verifying your identity.

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I hate this, because that's probably a fake reason given by them.

Mercado Libre (the "latin american Amazon") did something similar to me: they said I enabled two factor authentication via ID, and blocked me from my account until I give it to them. After a lot of back and forth with support, they finally admitted that they picked random users for "some tests", and told me that there's nothing I could do about it. Maybe LinkedIn is doing something similar?

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