Unfortunately, the situation is not so rare: you, as usual, go to your VKontakte page, and there... a strange gray picture and an inscription that your page is currently unavailable and will be blocked for some time. Which one specifically will most likely not be specified.
Blocking of pages often occurs due to the fault of the users themselves, who violated the VKontakte communication rules or were simply careless. Sometimes the page is hijacked by attackers who send spam from your profile (especially if you sent an SMS to a short number - this is the handwriting of scammers).
Let's figure out what the pictures of blocked VKontakte pages mean
Banned for advertising
According to the VKontakte administration, Lentach violated the rule according to which communities cannot post more than five third-party advertising messages and more than three ads from the VKontakte advertising exchange per day in their feed. Technical support of the social network considered an advertising section in which the public was giving out free tickets.
Representatives of Lentach:
We have a section in Lentach where we give away tickets to free concerts to our readers. However, this is not advertising, we do not earn anything here. The post contains a link to the sponsor. It was this post that was the reason for turning off all our links and blocking the work of the community.
Formally, VKontakte technical support considered it an advertisement, and such posts cannot be pinned. Acting strictly according to instructions, VKontakte punished us for this. We believe that this misunderstanding was the real cause of the conflict.
Due to the blocking of a popular public page, from which the authorities get their money, there was a big fuss. The VKontakte administration made concessions by unblocking the community ahead of schedule. Instead of a week, I spent only 1 day in the Lentach bathhouse.
Closed VK saves - all methods: how to open from a computer?
Closed VK page
“Closed Profile” mode on VKontakte allows you to limit access to personal information on the page to all network users. Now you can make it so that some people will see your page the way you see it, while others will only have access to your avatar, last name and date of birth, if it is indicated on your page. Access to your friends list and posts can be blocked. So, below you will find ways to view a closed VK page.
Sending a friend request
Asking a person to be your friend is the easiest and most accessible way to view private VK saves, or the user’s entire page. As soon as the friend request is approved, all entries in your profile will become available to you, except for photos and video files if they are hidden by privacy settings.
Tip: If you and the user do not have the most friendly relationship, then he may not be added to your friends list. In this case, create a fake page and then he will not understand who you are and out of curiosity he may add you as a friend.
Help from mutual friends
Find a mutual friend with the user whose saves you want to see and ask him to send you the necessary information. Of course, you will have to be prepared to explain why you need this. But remember, you only need to ask someone you trust and are confident that he will not inform the target of your surveillance about your intentions.
View the profile yourself
This method is suitable if you are actually a friend of the user whose private saves you want to see. You need to come to his home and, under any pretext, gain access to the device from which he logs into VK. This can be done playfully and this method is often used by guys and girls who need to check up on their significant other.
Phishing resource
Now there are many sites on the Internet that offer to open closed pages. To do this, you only need to know the page ID and that’s it. However, it is worth noting that such sites are mostly scams. It is important for them to gain access to the profile and good profits.
Problems such as page blocking and extortion of money for its restoration may also arise. Attackers can also leak information online or send a virus that will completely block the device. Therefore, it is better not to resort to this method.
Hacker helps open VK saves
Hacker help
On the Internet you can find many advertisements of hackers offering profile hacking services. Many of them can actually do this, but most are still scammers. They gain access to the account, take their profits and disappear in an unknown direction. The whole problem is that you probably don’t know whether it’s a real hacker or just an attacker who only wants to gain access to your or another page.
Is it possible to view private photos and videos on VK?
The answer to this question is no. If the user has hidden photos or video files in the privacy settings, you will not see them at all. Those sites or individuals who offer the service of revealing hidden profiles or files are scammers. By accessing them, you risk your online security or the security of the page you want to access.
Banned for jokes
It will not be possible to unban so easily if law enforcement agencies and public opinion intervene in the matter. The popular MDK community, which consists of more than 7 million people, has become famous for a series of scandals.
In 2013, after a terrorist attack in Volgograd, a photograph of the city appeared in the community with the inscription: “Guys, there is a terrorist attack in Volgograd. Corpses, cries of “help”, which was accompanied by a request to “like”.
State Duma deputy from United Russia Mikhail Markelov called the recording blasphemous and said that the then head of VKontakte, Pavel Durov, should be prosecuted. Durov, in turn, gave the deputy a big public answer.
Pavel Durov, creator of VKontakte:
The authors of the image bring the situation to the point of absurdity and invite people to add to the text about the tragedy, thereby ridiculing regulars of social networks, who, instead of active actions such as material assistance to the victims, limit themselves to expressing virtual solidarity. Thus, the authors are ironic at their audience, at themselves, at the social network, but in no case at all at the victims of the terrorist attack.
Durov suggested that the deputy contact Roskomnadzor. Whether there is extremism in the picture must be decided by the court.
In June 2015, a joke appeared in MDK about the death of singer Zhanna Friske. MDK published a photo of her with distorted lyrics to one of Friske’s songs.
The publication outraged social network users, and soon a petition appeared on the Internet asking “to take criminal or administrative measures against the administrators.” Almost 160 thousand people signed it. State Duma deputies Maria Kozhevnikova, Joseph Kobzon and Mikhail Markelov demanded that the community be closed. The VKontakte administration removed the photo from the community. As explained by the social network’s press secretary Georgy Lobushkin, they decided to delete the entry “due to the huge number of complaints from VKontakte users.” The public was also disconnected from the advertising exchange, depriving them of a source of income. But the community was not closed again.
MDK
The attacks on the community did not end there. The prosecutor's office of the Central District of St. Petersburg went to court in response to a complaint from a citizen whose religious feelings were offended by community posts. For example, it was about “offensive images” of Jesus Christ after Easter. The prosecutor's office demanded that the community be blocked. In October 2015, a St. Petersburg court declared the content of the MDK community prohibited due to a recording that offended the feelings of believers, obscene language and pornographic images. It was not possible to appeal the decision of the public administration: since February 16, MDK has been banned in Russia. But VKontakte has not yet blocked the group.
— We have neither a court decision nor a notification from Roskomnadzor. Without them, accordingly, there is no our reaction,” said VKontakte press secretary Evgeny Krasnikov after the trial.
Why might a personal VKontakte page be blocked?
First, we will talk about why the user profile itself can be blocked, and we will go from the most common to rare reasons for blocking. So, for example, first of all, those personal pages are blocked here, on behalf of which a large number of identical messages are sent to other people within the social network. All this is classified by site moderators simply as spam and unnecessary annoying advertising, and therefore the page can be quickly blocked for this, and for different periods of time.
Personal pages are also blocked in cases where VKontakte moderation receives identical complaints from different people about the same user. By the way, it is precisely because of such repeated and regular complaints from other people that an account can be completely blocked forever.
It is worth remembering that VKontakte can quickly be blocked if the user publishes photographs and other materials that offend other people in one way or another. It is worth noting that if such a user decides to set such an offensive picture on his page as his avatar, he may even be blocked forever.
A page can also be blocked if any fraudulent actions were carried out on behalf of this user, or threats were sent against other people. In this case, people who have suffered from fraud or threats must first prove to Support specialists that they have actually personally suffered from the actions of this person.
Also, sometimes pages are blocked in cases where they are almost never visited, and at the same time they do not have photos and completed “About Me” items. If there is no phone number associated with a page, it can also be blocked pretty soon.
At the same time, it is worth warning those VKontakte users who use third-party applications and other software that, for example, helps to make friends, likes and other indicators. In general, these are all the main points related to the most common reasons for blocking user personal pages.
Banned for propaganda
An entire public campaign has unfolded against the “Children-404” community, a representative project of Nizhny Tagil resident Elena Klimova, which unites homosexual teenagers. The group’s content was subject to the law prohibiting gay propaganda among minors. First, the famous “fighter for morality,” St. Petersburg deputy Vitaly Milonov, went to court with a demand to close the group. Then members of the Young Guard contacted Roskomnadzor. The court fined Elena Klimova 50 thousand rubles. Later, another court decided to block the public. But the VKontakte administration met the community halfway. The social network closed the old, banned group and transferred the public’s subscribers to another group of the same name, “Children-404. LGBT teenagers."
Vadim Ampelonsky, press secretary of Roskomnadzor:
In fact, there is no information that was declared illegal by the court on the VKontakte pages. There will be a new day - there will apparently be new content in this new community. We hope that group administrators will be more attentive to compliance with legal requirements.
Communities are also banned for cheating members, spam, and pinned advertising. Thus, closed groups are blocked for attracting people using deceptive advertising posts. For example, an interesting post ends with the phrase “read more in the source”, users go to the group, but it is closed. In order to read the post to the end, you must be a subscriber to the group.
What to do if you are blocked forever?
What to do if your VK page is blocked forever? What can you get such a punishment for:
- Serious violations.
- Multiple warnings.
- The user refuses to comply with the rules of the social network.
Is it possible to unblock a profile? The user's chances tend to zero. You can write a message to the administration and ask them to unfreeze your profile and promise to follow the rules. But with a high probability, specialists will refuse.
Did you break the rules? Ask administrators to review your login history. If users from other regions visited the page, then a hack can be detected. The account will be restored, the person will be asked to take care of the security of the profile.
How to close VK saves from your phone and computer: instructions
This section will help if you want to close your saved files from public access or you need to hide your page from network users. So, you need to follow the steps below.
Hide saved photos from your computer
Perform all necessary actions in the “Privacy” section.
To do this, follow these instructions:
- Go to your profile. In the top right corner, select Privacy .
- Opposite the line “Who sees the list of my photos” , select those users from the list who can see your files. For example, "Friends and friends of friends" or "Nobody but me" .
- After such actions, your photos will be available only to those users to whom you have allowed this with these privacy settings.
Hide our videos
You can also restrict access to your videos. You can do this directly with each video recording. The instructions are very simple and accessible to all users. How to do this correctly, read the article at this link on our website .
Hide your profile
Hide your profile
Recently, there is no need to separately hide your VK saves, since you can completely hide your profile. Here's how to do it:
- On your VK page, just as in the previous description, go to the “Privacy” .
- Scroll down the page and find the Other .
- There is a line here “Profile type” . Instead of "Open", select "CLOSED" .
Now only friends can see your profile. You can also make the page accessible only to VKontakte users. To do this, select the line “Only VKontakte users” .
Closing saved files from your phone
Hide the VK page from your phone
To hide saved photos or videos from your phone or application, you need to do the following:
- Go to "Settings" .
- Open the "Privacy" .
- Make a choice opposite the line “Who sees my photos” .
Now your photos will only be seen by those users whom you have allowed to do so. You can restrict access to videos from your phone in the same way as from a PC - this function is available for each video separately. See instructions above in the text.
You can also restrict access to your page from your phone or completely close your profile for Internet users. Go to the “Privacy” , scroll the slider below and find the lines you need. Select the appropriate option, for example:
- “Who can see my page” - “Only VK users.”
- “Closed profile” is selected by switching the checkbox to green. This switch is located where the arrow in the picture above points.
Now you know how to view hidden VK saves or, conversely, close your saved files on this social network. Everything is simple, fast and convenient.
