I Keep Getting Banned Warnings

[+Jester124 Subscriber²]

Was kind of shocked this morning when I opened up the site and was logged out on my tablet (Galaxy Pro S7), so I logged in and was hit with the following screen

I refreshed and was still logged in, clicked another paged and got the screen again and this time was logged out.

 

i will say I was a little panicked as I haven’t been to active in a while or done anything that I could think of that would cause it, but this seem to be the only device/browser affected.

 

Troubleshooting done:

restarted

Cleared cache and cookies

reset chrome

tried in incognito 

 

Firefox on the device works perfectly fine and all other devices. Don’t know if it is just a me thing or not, but figured I’d post in case anyone else sees this scare!

 

Good news(or bad, depending), my account is not banned for now!

[Som]

that happened to be a few days ago, seem to resolve itself after an hour or so.  Vivaldi on Android 

[Som]

On 21/08/2025 at 13:22, Jester124 said:

Was kind of shocked this morning when I opened up the site and was logged out on my tablet (Galaxy Pro S7), so I logged in and was hit with the following screen

I refreshed and was still logged in, clicked another paged and got the screen again and this time was logged out.

 

i will say I was a little panicked as I haven’t been to active in a while or done anything that I could think of that would cause it, but this seem to be the only device/browser affected.

 

Troubleshooting done:

restarted

Cleared cache and cookies

reset chrome

tried in incognito 

 

Firefox on the device works perfectly fine and all other devices. Don’t know if it is just a me thing or not, but figured I’d post in case anyone else sees this scare!

 

Good news(or bad, depending), my account is not banned for now!

Coincidentally just happened again, server side caching issue maybe?

[+Jester124 Subscriber²]

On 21/08/2025 at 13:55, Som said:

Coincidentally just happened again, server side caching issue maybe?

It has calmed down for me. Then again, I have not been on my tablet for a bit now and it was only happening on that. Tested on different devices and OS's, and no problems. Still made me skip a beat though!

Glad its not just me, but also not. hope it stops for you as well

[FloatingFatMan]

I got it the other day on my desktop, and it just happened again. Wouldn't go away until I changed entry point on my VPN.

WTF is going on, Neowin?

Also with Chrome btw... I've abandoned Brave as it stopped working with Twitch.  

 

[Matthew S.]

Happening on iOS too.

A few days ago, clicking on any notifications would take me to my warning page O.o (on windows)

[+Jester124 Subscriber²]

Looks like it is spreading... So far, (fingers crossed) I have not seen it on any other devices. But outside of my phone and tablet, all my other devices use FireFox. I have not see the issue on anything other than my tablet so far.

[+Jester124 Subscriber²]

And jinxed myself. Happened today on my main laptop running Windows and the latest Firefox. Think you're right close with the server side caching or some DB issues @Som

[+primortal Subscriber²]

I’ve been getting this lately and it takes several refresh’s before it goes away.

[+thexfile Subscriber²]

It sounds like somebody's making fake reports.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Yeah at least two staff members have reported this too. I have pinged @DaveLeggbecause idk what it could be. The IPs of those affected are not in the ban list.

and it just happened to me too 

[Jim K Global Moderator]

Went ahead and merged this with the "Possible issue with Mobile chrome on Android" ...

I don't have an answer.  I was doing a little research...thinking maybe IPs were temporarily flagged.  I did ping the back area with an oddity I saw...

 

Edit:  ninja'd

[+primortal Subscriber²]

On 23/08/2025 at 15:01, Jim K said:

Went ahead and merged this with the "Possible issue with Mobile chrome on Android" …

This is also happening on my desktop at times.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Dave thinks he knows what it is and was looking into it.

[Jim K Global Moderator]

On 23/08/2025 at 14:10, primortal said:

This is also happening on my desktop at times.

yeah, that's why I kept the "I Keep Getting Banned Warnings" title.  Probably isn't a platform specific issue.

[Steven P. Administrators]

The issue should be resolved now!

It was a configuration issue with Cloudflare proxy.

[flo_k]

Happened to me, thought my trolling had caught up with me, not today!