Tinder Banned

[Jetlii]

Hey so I’m using your tinder bot that is written in python using selenium. It works beautifully, thank you for the hard work. I am using it for research purposes and unfortunately began to run into arkos labs captchas, which I expected. But then, I believe through rapid testing of the script I was banned. I ran into errors while searching for elements and consistently needed to fix them and restarting the script multiple times made tinder flag my account. It was my intention to scale the script and expand its capabilities but unable to do so from what I previously stated. Through some research it is believed that tinder has banned my device id? Would you have any advice on what to do or work around for this?

[userbradley]

What leads you to believe they banned your device ID?

Can you run me through what you've tested?

[frederikme]

Like @userbradly replied above, it would be handy if you could explain a bit further about how you've been banned, and what the reasons are that make you think you've had some device or ip based ban :)

[Jetlii]

First, Thank you both for answering! I’ve created new test accounts manually and have immediately been hit with arkose labs captchas. A short time later I find that the account is banned! Based on their privacy policy, they collect device IDs. Upon using a real and experienced tinder account that had been aged for at least half a year, I began to receive the captchas. I believed this to be standard because of the continuous testing and rested the account and script for a few days. After restarting I received a message of the account being banned, so I made a test account as stated before, and immediately after creating the account, the captchas began to appear followed by a banned message as well. This led me to believe it was a device-related issue and not an account issue.

[frederikme]

You're right, they do collect device IDs. So a device ban is definitely a possible explanation.

Below is a small copy paste of Tinders privacy policy for future readers.

Device information We collect information from and about the device(s) you use to access our services, including:

• hardware and software information such as IP address, device ID and type, device-specific and apps settings and characteristics, app crashes, advertising IDs (such as Google’s AAID and Apple's IDFA, both of which are randomly generated numbers that you can reset by going into your device’ settings), browser type, version and language, operating system, time zones, identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser (e.g., IMEI/UDID and MAC address);
• information on your wireless and mobile network connection, like your service provider and signal strength;
• information on device sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes and compasses.

[Jetlii]

Since they collect device ID , Every test account I create automatically gets banned ! Even accounts , I’ve had for at least 6 months got banned because I logged in on the same device . Have any idea of a work around the device ban?