I made a badoo bot but now I'm having issues

[Baxorr]

Hey not sure if the proper place to post, please tell me if so.

Recently made some money with badoo accounts and decided to automate it to try and scale it up a little bit. So I made a custom bot and everything was fine while testing, but now I keep getting the "you need to image verify your account" popup before even reaching the profile customization page, even with proxies.

What used to happen was that it wouldn't prompt for image verification unless I'd use the same ip multiple times or spam liked with the account.

So my question is, any ideas on why this occurs?

 

[HeXeR]

What kind of images are you using? If they can be found via google images that might raise red flags. I guess solution would be some kind of preprocessing, maybe black and while, just change colors a bit or something else that would mess with their checks. Assuming that's still how it works it's been awhile since I've used it but I remember having images (like from internet etc) flagged quite quickly.

 

[deedee1whoa]

Well, image verification is basically a must on Badoo, as far as I remember.
And you need photos on the profile to match the face. They're pretty strict.

 

[Baxorr]

What kind of images are you using? If they can be found via google images that might raise red flags. I guess solution would be some kind of preprocessing, maybe black and while, just change colors a bit or something else that would mess with their checks. Assuming that's still how it works it's been awhile since I've used it but I remember having images (like from internet etc) flagged quite quickly.

I think you're on to something, I made small script that flips and crops my images and now it seems to work, haven't tested it a lot yet but looks good so far. Thanks!

 

[Baxorr]

Well, image verification is basically a must on Badoo, as far as I remember.
And you need photos on the profile to match the face. They're pretty strict.

Any chance you plan on sharing the bot with fellow BHW-ers, at least after some time?

Yeah I might share it when I'm done using it, not sure how useful it would be to other people though, unless they'd want to use it the same way I do. I also thought about sharing my "flip images to make them unique" script but there's probably already something like that somewhere lol

 

[HeXeR]

Yea, as I said I think they're cross checking images somehow, could be google image search (dunno if there's API for that yet) could be something else, maybe own DB. I mean its the simplest way for them to implement some kind of filters for spammers, abusers, whatever, ... if they see various users all over the world uploading the same images... you get the idea.

Flipping and cropping is actually brilliant idea, I used to flip it and change color tone a bit (make it darker or lighter). They're probably checking specific pixels of each image, MD5 hash of whole image or something similar.

 

[deedee1whoa]

Yeah I might share it when I'm done using it, not sure how useful it would be to other people though, unless they'd want to use it the same way I do. I also thought about sharing my "flip images to make them unique" script but there's probably already something like that somewhere lol

Well, I don't know what the bot does exactly but if it's useful to you, I'm sure lots of BHW members will be thankful.
Flipping images is quite smart and sneaky so, you go Glen Coco!

 

[dreadpixel]

That is the botting limitations. In the first place that is why Captchas exist.
Personally with some biggers networks I find myself playing along with the thousands engineers employees from this big companies. They patch, I invent something that automates. They patch again and make it more difficult, then we use captcha services.
Finally, botting industry is now using Tensorflow, Watson and so, so it will be a never ending fight.
What we must understand is that AI is the next human revolution. We had industrial, we are living in the digital, now we are turning to make things be connected (IoT). What comes next is going to replace thousands of jobs.

 

[Baxorr]

That is the botting limitations. In the first place that is why Captchas exist.
Personally with some biggers networks I find myself playing along with the thousands engineers employees from this big companies. They patch, I invent something that automates. They patch again and make it more difficult, then we use captcha services.
Finally, botting industry is now using Tensorflow, Watson and so, so it will be a never ending fight.
What we must understand is that AI is the next human revolution. We had industrial, we are living in the digital, now we are turning to make things be connected (IoT). What comes next is going to replace thousands of jobs.

Not sure what you're on about but flipping the images seemed to solve my problem. Not really an advanced solution, most image editors even let you do it in bulk anyway.