pond5 unrolled new bot protection scheme for mass uploading which is SS/M+ obviously. why? no idea, why pond5 and any other stock agency thinks the authors should not use any automation in their workflow and do everything manually in wretched and outdated interfaces every agency has, and at the same time the agencies have a 146% right to employ robots and AIs in review process for example.
yet.. SS/M+ reported the issues month ago and has finally developed a solution. you should join their telegram channel to ask for more details, with M+ the solution works most of the time so far. 

Quote from: SuperPhoto on July 04, 2024, 12:07

No, that is not it. It seems some free e-mail providers don't accept the e-mail activations. Try using a different e-mail service, he may have better luck with that.

I doubt as it never happened with other channels. He is using Gmail.

I tried to register for about a year and never received an activation email. Then I tried to email the support and by lunchtime I received an email that my account was activated.