Safe use
Will my account get banned?
The honest answer is “probably not, if you stay paced — and we won’t pretend the risk is zero.” This page is everything we know about staying out of trouble, written plainly enough that you can decide whether to keep reading.
The honest read
Three things every job site has in common.
- They watch for unusual rates. Going from your normal usage pattern to 200 applications in a day is the loudest possible signal. Conservative defaults — the ones TimeBaQ ships with — look like a focused human, not a bot.
- They listen to recruiters. Mass low-relevance applications generate complaints from hiring managers, which trigger investigation. Tightening your title and location filters is the single highest-leverage move you can make.
- They notice patterns more than identities. A constant typing speed, identical timing between applications, applications at 3 AM in your timezone — those are the giveaways. TimeBaQ randomizes the patterns the way a real human would.
Per-platform daily limits
Recommended ceilings, by platform.
These aren’t TimeBaQ’s caps — the app will let you exceed them. They’re what we recommend if you want to stay quiet.
Platform
15–25 apps / day
Highest account value, most monitored. Mass applications get noticed by your network.
Platform
Indeed
50–75 apps / day
Disposable accounts, lighter monitoring. Higher daily ceilings are realistic.
Platform
Glassdoor
30–50 apps / day
Active Cloudflare protection, moderate monitoring. Stay paced.
Platform
ZipRecruiter
40–60 apps / day
Moderate monitoring. Reasonable middle ground.
Platform
Dice, Wellfound, CareerBuilder
50–75 apps / day
Generally less aggressive detection. Default ceiling is fine.
Your first week
Don’t go zero-to-hundred. Ramp up.
A real human starting a job search applies to a handful on day one, twice that on day two, and finds a rhythm by day four or five. That’s what platform anomaly detection considers “normal.” Mimic it.
- Day 1 5 apps
- Day 2 10 apps
- Day 3 15 apps
- Day 4 20 apps
- Day 5+ Your configured limit
LinkedIn, specifically
LinkedIn is the riskiest platform. Treat it like a china shop.
Keep posting
If you normally comment, post, or engage on LinkedIn, keep doing it. Sudden silence + mass applications is a louder signal than mass applications alone.
Use Easy Apply only
External application links route through LinkedIn’s tracking and add a layer of risk. TimeBaQ defaults to Easy Apply on LinkedIn for this reason.
Stop on the first warning
If LinkedIn shows you an “unusual activity” banner, stop the platform inside TimeBaQ and don’t touch it for 24–48 hours. Returning early is the most common way a soft warning becomes a hard restriction.
Two-to-three-hour sessions
Don’t leave LinkedIn running all day. Schedule two- or three-hour windows on Pro tier; on free, run it manually for a couple of hours and stop.
If something goes wrong
What to do if a platform flags or restricts you.
- Stop the platform in TimeBaQ. Hit pause on the affected platform. Don’t restart while a warning is active.
- Wait 24–48 hours. Most soft blocks lift on their own. Restarting early is the most common way a soft block becomes a hard one.
- Use the platform’s appeal flow. Every major platform has one. Be polite, be human, and demonstrate you were applying to relevant roles.
- Export your TimeBaQ logs as evidence. Your local log shows exactly what was applied to: real job titles, real companies, reasonable timestamps. “I applied to 25 software-engineer roles over three days” is reasonable human behavior — the log proves it.
- Tighten your filters before you resume. If the platform was complaining about relevance, tighter title and location filters are the fix. Don’t just lower the daily cap and try again.
The fine print, in plain English
TimeBaQ is a tool. You’re responsible for how you use it. We can’t guarantee your accounts won’t be affected, and our Terms of Service say so. Conservative settings, gradual ramp-up, and good filters cover most of the risk — the rest is unavoidable for any automation tool, ours included.
Pre-launch
Now you’ve read the safety brief. Take it slow.
TimeBaQ isn’t open to the public yet. Drop your email to be first in line when it ships.