Circumvention Flags

Getting Flagged for Circumventing Systems

One of the most frustrating error messages to receive when trying to run your ads is a flag for Circumventing

Systems. This flag means that something that you are running has previously been flagged for breaching

advertising policies, most likely a low feedback score.

When you receive this flag, your Profile and Page can often be disabled permanently. Repeat offences can also

lead to you losing your Business Managers and Pixels. In some severe cases it can also lead to our Agency Ad

Accounts getting disabled.

What Assets are Flagged?

If you lose a Page for low feedback score, or a severe breach of Advertising Policy, Facebook can flag the

following assets:

• Page / Pixel

• Domain

• Creatives (Video/Image)

• Landing Page

• Profile/VPS/IP

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It's important to note that, providing none of these infringing assets are being used actively on your Ad

Account, your Agency Ad Account will not be flagged. Ad Accounts are only flagged whilst some of these

assets are being used on them.

How do I Avoid the Error?

If you find your Pages going down, Profiles getting disabled, and ads getting rejected, it's likely something you

are running has been flagged.

This could even be a competitor's ad that you have downloaded and slightly modified and are using yourself.

Facebook now flags video ads, and even slight edits (like changing size, speed, logos etc.) wont work for long.

You may find it gets approved, but then disabled after a day or two.

The only way to get around this issue is to change everything, and delete all existing ads and campaigns that

might be infringing from your ad account.

We also recommend avoiding using any competitor's ads, as they may have previously been flagged. Then,

when you upload them, Facebook will flag you as they think you are that competitor trying to re-advertise.

Then getting your feedback above the threshold. This will make it easier to re-advertise again.

Plus, we recommend changing all of the assets mentioned above to make sure there is nothing that can

possibly be detected as being the same as before. Facebook's Al is smart, and it only takes you to miss one

area, and you will once again get banned

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