Anyone else noticing this while editing an email? It seems just crazy.
Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
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Re: Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
#2Can this be used to make MailChimp stop sending spam to an address?
Re: Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
#3Are you seeing any network requests or data transmitted over open websockets to confirm this is actually the case?
I get it that people like to complain about stuff on HN (I recently had a thread too) but there needs to be evidence for people to go off of.
Re: Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
#4This SO post is a bit old now, so I'd verify before proceeding, but it looks like having devtools open in a separate window will enable you to circumvent the check.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40153206/detect-if-conso...
Re: Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
#5Fascinating I encourage customers to use the dev tools to discover and see how to work with our apis
Re: Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
#6Are you seeing any network requests or data transmitted over open websockets to confirm this is actually the case? I get it that people like to complain about stuff on HN (I recently had a thread too) but there needs to be evidence for people to go off of.
Open the inspector, reload the page and you'll see:
"Request Blocked
We blocked your request because the IP address you’re using looks suspicious. This issue will usually resolve itself after a short period of time, and you can try your request again. You can also try using a different IP address to see if that resolves the issue.
If you need additional help, you can try one of these support options.
Reference Number: #####"
Re: Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
#7Can this be used to make MailChimp stop sending spam to an address?
No, that's their business model.
Re: Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
#8That's an anticompetitive move. If you need to switch senders for some reason, the inspector is the only clean way to get an email's HTML into another ESP.
Re: Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
#9It's pretty common as an account hijacking vector, right?
Hackers tell non-techies to paste things into the console, which can then share cookies or access tokens with the attacker.
Obviously the browser is "owned" by the client, so a sufficiently motivated techie could bypass this any number of ways. But it prevents some number of non-techies from security issues.
Re: Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
#10Are you seeing any network requests or data transmitted over open websockets to confirm this is actually the case? I get it that people like to complain about stuff on HN (I recently had a thread too) but there needs to be evidence for people to go off of.
Open the inspector, reload the page and you'll see: "Request Blocked We blocked your request because the IP address you’re using looks suspicious. This issue will usually resolve itself after a short period of time, and you can try your request again. You can also try using a different IP address to see if that resolves the issue. If you need additional help, you can try one of these support options. Reference Number…
Thank you for the description. I assume they're using a bot management script which is set to block requests if devtools is open. For such websites, opening devtools in a separate window should work.
Some websites will try to throw you into a loop of debugger statements if they detect devtools being opened, which is harder to work around, but it doesn't seem to be the case here.