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I'm really not a big fan of X these days, but they moved quickly on that after Nikita Beer jumped on the topic in the past days: https://devcommunity.x.com/t/u

by dewey 8mo ago

I'm really not a big fan of X these days, but they moved quickly on that after Nikita Beer jumped on the topic in the past days: https://devcommunity.x.com/t/update-to-reply-behavior-in-x-api-v2-restricting-programmatic-replies/257909 https://devcommunity.x.com/t/update-to-reply-behavior-in-x-a... > Moving forward, replies via the API will only be permitted if the replier has been explicitly summoned by the original post’s author. This means: The original author @mentions the replying user/account in their post, or The original author quotes a post from the replying user/account.

croes 8mo ago
Pretty useless because agents can reply per UI
- theshrike79 8mo ago
  The professional troll factories (that tend to get quiet when Russian office hours are done...) have used browser automation for years already - and they pay the $ whatever for the blue checkmark to get to the top of people's replies.
  - owebmaster 8mo ago
    > that tend to get quiet when Russian office hours are done. So you are saying the bots go to sleep? Not a very smart allegation.
    - vidarh 8mo ago
      "Bots" have for a very long time now to a lot of people meant people who are following instructions/being paid to post/reply rather than only scripts.
    - theshrike79 8mo ago
      "Bots" being actual humans in literal office buildings feeding and flaring up misinformation and dissent online. They've upgraded to AI's recently though, usually the first response is a canned AI thing but if you keep arguing you'll get an actual human.
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fooker 8mo ago
Great, except most bots don't use the API directly. They look like normal users to the server for the most part. Google has spent billions trying to distinguish bots from users. And has been largely unsuccessful n
- weirdmantis69 8mo ago
  Seems like it would be relatively simple no? They control the app itself? Wouldn't it be trivial to put a signature to the app and see the typing speed, user actions, etc?
  - thunderfork 8mo ago
    This would be about as trivial as it'd be for YouTube to block yt-dlp.
  - fooker 8mo ago
    https://xkcd.com/793/ https://xkcd.com/793/
  - deleted 8mo ago
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  - clouedoc 8mo ago
    [dead]
  - Jensson 8mo ago
    Google is doing that, you know all those "I am not a robot" things? Those are made by google mostly and uses a lot of such signals. Its not just clicking the right things its also how you click etc. The reason some of those just have a checkbox without a challenge is that they already are sure enough so how you move to click the box is enough then.

by dewey 8mo ago

croes 8mo ago

Pretty useless because agents can reply per UI

theshrike79 8mo ago
The professional troll factories (that tend to get quiet when Russian office hours are done...) have used browser automation for years already - and they pay the $ whatever for the blue checkmark to get to the top of people's replies.
- owebmaster 8mo ago
  > that tend to get quiet when Russian office hours are done. So you are saying the bots go to sleep? Not a very smart allegation.
  - vidarh 8mo ago
    "Bots" have for a very long time now to a lot of people meant people who are following instructions/being paid to post/reply rather than only scripts.
  - theshrike79 8mo ago
    "Bots" being actual humans in literal office buildings feeding and flaring up misinformation and dissent online. They've upgraded to AI's recently though, usually the first response is a canned AI thing but if you keep arguing you'll get an actual human.
    - deleted 8mo ago
      [deleted]

fooker 8mo ago

Great, except most bots don't use the API directly. They look like normal users to the server for the most part. Google has spent billions trying to distinguish bots from users. And has been largely unsuccessful n

weirdmantis69 8mo ago
Seems like it would be relatively simple no? They control the app itself? Wouldn't it be trivial to put a signature to the app and see the typing speed, user actions, etc?
- thunderfork 8mo ago
  This would be about as trivial as it'd be for YouTube to block yt-dlp.
- fooker 8mo ago
  https://xkcd.com/793/ https://xkcd.com/793/
- deleted 8mo ago
  [deleted]
- clouedoc 8mo ago
  [dead]
- Jensson 8mo ago
  Google is doing that, you know all those "I am not a robot" things? Those are made by google mostly and uses a lot of such signals. Its not just clicking the right things its also how you click etc. The reason some of those just have a checkbox without a challenge is that they already are sure enough so how you move to click the box is enough then.