Surely you see how your anecdotal experience isn't sufficient to understand the false positive rate of these systems, right?
My 11 year old reddit account was banned a couple of hours into my engagement vacation to bhutan. After putting a local sim in my phone, I was first locked out of my account - I then passed their verification and unlocked it, just to wake up the next morning to an account ban. Their anti abuse systems are clearly very poorly calibrated for anybody who even slightly deviates from normal account access patterns.
My 11 year old reddit account was banned a couple of hours into my engagement vacation to bhutan. After putting a local sim in my phone, I was first locked out of my account - I then passed their verification and unlocked it, just to wake up the next morning to an account ban. Their anti abuse systems are clearly very poorly calibrated for anybody who even slightly deviates from normal account access patterns.