Talebano
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- Dec 29, 2015
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You think you custom bot won't have bugs? Someone new to the domain will make glaring bugs that will make your bots stand out like sore thumbs, you don't want to be unique, you want to blend into the crowd.
It's not about bugs - it's about 1000s of people using the same bot!
And, by the way, you could avoid the majority of the bugs just having a no-gui script,but command line scripts don't sell like user friendly guis.
Surely a public bot will be safer and easier for the new user, but you'll agree with me in saying that thousands of people using the same bot makes the bot easier to be detected - hence less secure.Paradoxically, the best bots get flagged first because the best bots have the most users between all bots, but more users means more interactions and hence more datas for instagram.
Instagram will end up knowing how all these bots behave.I think we saw this happening with every major bot in the last years
I don't know how all instagram bots work (that would be impossible) but I surely do know that we have two main categories of bots:
1 - browser based bots (no api) (I'm not sure this kind of bots still exists)
2 - app based bots (private api)
As I said, the browser-based bots shouldn't exist anymore.
Basically you're scripting on your own browser and Instagram should notice that you're not using their app to upload photoes.That's pretty suspicious, even if you set a mobile user agent.
Why should you use your browser when you can simply download their official app?
Now let's talk about app based bots.I think (or, at least, I hope) that all major bots are app-based.
This means they have to reverse engineer the whole app looking for a constant called IG_SIG_KEY in order to make their private api work.
It may look like an easy task, but it surely isn't.
It looks so difficult to me that I don't know if each public bot has decoded its own IG_SIG_KEY
The IG_SIG_KEY basically identifies your app version.
Now, let's say you're botting using the IG_SIG_KEY of Instagram 89.0.0.21.101 version; notice that instagram last version is 110.0.0.16.119
Let's say your PUBLIC bot still works on that old version: Instagram will see thousands of accounts having a suspicious behaviour on your quite dated app.
Now, if your public bot lets you choose more than 1 device you should be still safe.
as example: 5000-7000 accounts using the same old ig_sig_key, the same device and having a suspicious behaviour?too easy for instagram,each action they take enhances ig's algorithm.
5000-7000 accounts using the same old ig_sig_key with a suspicious behaviour BUT on multiple devices?More difficult than before, but I think that's still an easy task for IG.
What's my point then?Instagram Is DeAd?No, I don't think so.
I think that using your own private bot you should be pretty safe.
Also if you run hundreds of accounts on your private bot, that would be an order of size smaller than with the public bot.
I think that would be a drop in the ocean, almost impossible to be flagged as bot.
You could argue that 5000 accounts too is a drop in the ocean compared to instagram total users; it surely is, but not when it comes to botting.Otherwise we won't have experienced the last ban hammer.
I don't know how big is the business of public bots but I guess that an average bot has at least 5000 accounts running with it..maybe someone could help with numbers.
That's my honest thought about botting on IG.
I'm not a developer, just a lurker.
Take everything I write with a grain of salt (especially when things get technical) and please correct me if I'm wrong.
EDIT : I've just read (in your signature) that you're the developer behind Instadub.
I shouldn't have replied you..you're here only to advertise your bot, not to share real knowledge.
But I would be pleased if you proved me wrong.