Instagram announces that botting is dead

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Instagram sent out an update this week explaining their services. This was in there:

"We receive different kinds of information from your device, like how you tap and scroll, which can help distinguish humans from bots and detect fraud."​

Instagram tracks how you scroll. Bots do not scroll, they jump from link to link applying actions. Followliker and the rest of the bots are likely dead now. Unless you have a script that applies a physical scrolling (cookies can detect whether the input is a mouse, trackpad, or finger swipe) using bots is flagging your account for shadowbox or possible full ban.
 
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Minnehaha said:
you just make the bot scroll with a little random variation to it.
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1) The bot will need to tell Instagram that the input is from a device which isn't the easiest thing to do.

2) The random scrolling will develop a pattern. IG and FB have had a decade for machine learning. There is likely a rather distinguishable pattern that is human versus random scrolling from a bot.

The level of sophistication will have to jump 10x fold.
 
I have no doubt, that bot providers will adapt to changes, because bot can do whatever human can do.
 
You do know that for example, you could just use JS to scroll to the bottom of the page etc. All that means is that bots will get more sophisticated (or not and just certain bots will be dead)
 
btw. I don't have anything against killing boting on social media ;)
maybe BHW will come back to regular SEO
 
theRevolt said:
You do know that for example, you could just use JS to scroll to the bottom of the page etc. All that means is that bots will get more sophisticated (or not and just certain bots will be dead)
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JS? You don't know what you're talking about lol
 
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