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How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

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Re: How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

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This is also why creating a regular account is so difficult on all the social networks. You sign up and it is instantly banned and you have to go through a whole review and approval process just to use it. Incredibly user and company hostile.

Re: How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

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>A full screenshot is huge. Over 7 million pixels on a typical screen.

Hmmm i don't think that's true? 1080p is 2M, 2K is 4M, 4K is 8M. Are we really in an era where full 4K is "typical"? For reading Instagram? I've got 4 screens i use on a daily basis that are all 2K or less. I mean my TV was only 1080p until a few months ago lol. Maybe I'm just slow.

Also: you're automating the browser, just make the window smaller then!

Re: How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

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post #2

This is also why creating a regular account is so difficult on all the social networks. You sign up and it is instantly banned and you have to go through a whole review and approval process just to use it. Incredibly user and company hostile.

You start to wonder if that’s a good place to be present

Re: How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

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post #2

This is also why creating a regular account is so difficult on all the social networks. You sign up and it is instantly banned and you have to go through a whole review and approval process just to use it. Incredibly user and company hostile.

You start to wonder if that’s a good place to be present

Agreed. For better or worse, social networks are the fb marketplace of eyes.

Re: How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

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post #2

This is also why creating a regular account is so difficult on all the social networks. You sign up and it is instantly banned and you have to go through a whole review and approval process just to use it. Incredibly user and company hostile.

You start to wonder if that’s a good place to be present

that is why it is called a gift

Re: How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You start to wonder if that’s a good place to be present

Agreed. For better or worse, social networks are the fb marketplace of eyes.

how could this be for better?

Re: How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

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I appreciate (and encourage) using real life problems as a pretext for researching new topics and developing new skills, but

1. I'm really curious as to what's the desired outcome here? A spambot to flood people's notifications?

2. I'll admit that I have absolutely no idea how Instagram's API layer (and protection) works but wouldn't capturing the HTTP calls a more appropriate and easier approach to take?

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