403 Not Authorized on Email Verification (Unable to Access Hugging Face APIs)

[manish3089]

Bug description.
After registering and receiving the email verification link from huggingface.co, I clicked the link, and it redirected me to a 403 Not Authorized page.

As a result, my email is not fully verified, and I cannot access gated models or use Hugging Face APIs.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a Hugging Face account
2. Receive the verification email
3. Click the verification link
4. Observe: Redirected to 403 Not Authorized page

Describe the expected behaviour
Clicking the verification link should confirm my email and allow API and gated repo access.

Additional context
I have tried:

• Logging out and back in
• Clearing cookies and cache
• Using incognito/private mode
• Re-requesting the verification email

None of these worked. Please help resolve this so I can use gated models like meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf.
Thanks.