Attempted to pay for web novels on Naver, only to get a permanent ban

[Uziwith4buffers]

> Find absolute kino web novel on series.naver.com
> Decided to throw money at Korean megacorp to read legal chapters like a civilized human
> "You need to log in"
> Spend 3 straight days fighting Naver's dogshit UI
> Creating account, uploading passport, bypassing infinite rejection loops, auto-translating forms and emails with Gemini
> Finally done: real-name verified, clean passport, legit phone number, clean VPN IP
> Click "read next chapter" with full legitimacy
> Instantly permabanned by Naver
> Reason: "Ur account is associated with webtoon pirating activity, fuck off"
> Didn't even touch a single pirate site or scraper bot with that user name and affiliated account

[YoshitoSakurai]

It's unfortunately the society we live in. Some AI scraper bot sees your name, or something similar to it (usually usernames that someone can easily have a similar one of or the exact) and boom you are banned.

Be it if you did share or not. Having any outside of the company dealings is none of their business but they basically spy on you and ban you.

[mubeen666]

Same thing happened to me with novelpia and apparently I didn't learn my lesson and tried to sign up for naver cause I got engaged to a novel. Topped up and after 3 days I got banned. Goodbye account and money. These korean chaebols and dogshits are the reason they don't have overseas customers.