It used the browser agent to grab user cookies after signing in, then made API calls iirc.
replyUsing just a browser is way too token intensive and slow. It would look for 401 errors then run the browser automation to login with the credentials and grab the token.
I'm surprised these platforms don't have advanced heuristics to detect API calls and inauthentic traffic.
replyDid you clone the Reddit API from browser traffic and then turn it into a 100% API driven thing?
I'd imagine they'd be sniffing browser agents, plugins, cookies, etc. to fingerprint. Using JavaScript scroll position, browsing rate and patterns, etc.
Maybe their protections just aren't that sophisticated.
Reddit is known to fingerprint TLS and quickly shadowban accounts that don't have the fingerprints of browsers.
replyTLS fingerprinting and Cloudflare are easy to bypass. There are lots of libraries that do so.
replyThe application-layer stuff is harder. Each application can develop its own heuristics, and that's difficult to automate in a cross-cutting fashion.
Reddit doesn't do anything about that? That seems stupid.
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