For a few months, Kik has been rolling out changes to the login and sign up systems to add new security measures and protections.

To enforce this, they methodically disabled old versions and ultimately disabled the old method of registering, and as of 9/9/24, going through the new system is required.

The new security systems are designed to block bots, spam, mods, or anything that isn't an official device running the official app from proceeding.

Since it was introduced a few months ago I have been analyzing the app and working on ways to enable Blue Kik to continue.

As of 9/10/24, Blue Kik is capable of logging in and signing up as normal, and is the only app that is able to do so.

In many cases, where registration is blocked on the Play Store version, Blue Kik will work.

Please see the below items for information about rules in related to the service.

To ensure a smooth transition and ensure its reliability long term, this is being gradually rolled out to all users slowly.

If you get this error, you are not currently eligible.

Check back daily and eventually you should be able to log in.

If you have Premium it should work. Contact me if not.

To make the service available to all users, please respect the following rules:

• Do not spam the service.
• Once you create an account or sign into an account, stay logged in for at 1-2 days. Not doing so may cause rate limits to be hit.
• When logging in, please make sure that the username and password is valid. If it isn't, reset it here.

Captchas were added by me to protect my resources from bad actors and allow as many real (human) users to get in as possible.

Without such protections, people will attempt to script your app with which causes a wrongful allocation of resources (lesson learned the hard way).

This makes it much harder to do so, as anyone smart enough to do this should be smart enough to beat the protection on their own.

If you have trouble solving it, close the window by using the 'back' key and try again.

The new methods require occasional adjustments. To be able to accomplish this, it requires specialized setups, servers, etc which cost money to operate.

To allow as many users to be able to access the app as possible, some rate limiting must be introduced.

Without such protections, spammers attempt to abuse your service via automation or other means and they will ruin it for everyone else if left unchecked. Therefore, it is necessary. I am always looking at ways to make it as unobtrusive as possible and improve this.

Try the following:

• Log in on a genuine Android device rather than an emulator
• Avoid using cloner or dual space apps
• Disable your VPN temporarily (you can turn it back on after logging in)

No. The service was designed with privacy in mind, so the username / email / password / birthday / display name is never sent to the server and therefore no decisions can be based on it.

Sometimes, as necessary, the app will route some traffic through my servers to complete the request. This is only done as a means to make it work properly and to anonymize you.

All such connections are end to end encrypted with certificate pinning protection to prevent snooping by me or anyone else.

Overall, I think it will cost MediaLab more revenue than it brings in, because the system routinely flags genuine users and denies access, and since the security mechanisms are "Black Box" implementations, Kik does not know why it fails and cannot help.

The most interesting question is, will this stop spam bots from getting into DMs and joining public groups?

I personally believe that in the short term it will stop spam, but in time I do believe spammers will find ways around it like I did, as any security system is beatable with time.

Look at Ricochet Anti-Cheat as an example. Really smart people built it but it is routinely broken and overall fails to stop cheating in Call Of Duty.