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Snawoot / windscribe-proxy

Standalone client for proxies of Windscribe browser extension
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Windscribe sends tons of "security alert" emails and blocks the account after ~70 of them #30

Closed kvtb closed 12 months ago

kvtb commented 12 months ago

Windscribe sends tons of "security alert" emails and blocka account after ~70 of them:

Your account is exhibiting suspicious activity, namely, you have an unusually high amount of successful logins into your account. This can happen if you re-used an insecure password that you used on other websites that may have been compromised in the past. You can check for this here. Alternatively, this can happen if you shared your account with all your friends which is against our Terms of Service.

windscribe-proxy could try to save and reuse previous login between runs to mitigate the problem. Currently, running say 10 proxies implies 10 login attempts

Snawoot commented 12 months ago

Hi!

It doesn't do login on each command. It stores and reuses session data in wndstate.json whenever this file is available UNLESS special option -force-cold-init is passed via command line. Maybe you're running it in docker and it discards state of writable layer / hasn't persistent volume mounted?

kvtb commented 12 months ago

I'll check, than you for the hint!