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  "path": "/t/how-to-sign-up-for-instagram-without-phone-number/38593#post_9",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-19T03:58:57.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This selfie-request system has been around for years, and I’ve been dealt with it too. From what I’ve seen, it seems to check things like the IP address reputation at connection time and whether there’s any suspicious traffic or behavior. So if you’re using Mullvad or ProtonVPN and your IP has a worse trust score than a normal home connection—or if it’s simply identified as belonging to a VPN provider—you may get asked for selfie verification.\nThe same thing can happen if you use Instagram Revanced, probably because its behavior looks unusual, which can trigger a selfie request or even an account suspension.\n\nTo get past that, I used a clean residential proxy, a long-term rented phone number, and as clean a device as possible, while trying to make Instagram behave like what they consider a “normal user.” But the effort was way more than my motivation to keep using Instagram. I don’t use Instagram anymore.",
  "title": "How to sign up for Instagram without phone number?"
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