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[Question] any workaround for Facebook blocking the script from running. #140

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Samuel1P opened this issue Oct 25, 2020 · 1 comment
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Samuel1P commented Oct 25, 2020

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The posts were getting deleted fine for around 2 hours. Then facebook started blocking the script from deleting any further posts with the above error. I tried it manually, I was able to delete the posts.
this error seems to happen only when mobile version of the url (m.facebook) is used for the delete. The script seems to use the mobile version of the profile url.

I wanted to know if this is a known thing that facebook does ?

my setup is:
windows 10 running virtual box and script is running in ubuntu 18.04 (osboxes) vm.
Chromium Version 86.0.4240.75 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 18.04 (64-bit)

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weskerfoot commented Oct 25, 2020

I haven't seen this before, but I'm not surprised they started doing this. The mobile site makes it easier to automate stuff, so maybe that has some effect on the backend. I could look into trying some workarounds like random delays on certain actions, etc. I'm not sure if that would be a perfect solution though.

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