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Snapchat has been more proactive on fighting bot than other competitors. You can easily copy the cookie from instagram.com and write a bot with puppeteer. You cannot just sniff the traffic from Snapchat app and hope to write a bot with that. It has been aggressive at binary obfuscation for request signing, and cracking down the 3rd party mods (such as the Snapchat Phantom mod).



https://casper.io -> https://twitter.com/LiamCottle/status/1406616490783117322

> iPhone farm to generate security tokens to access @Snapchat private APIs

(back in 2016)


Exactly. This is a never ending mouse-and-cat game. 2016 is when jailbreak mods still somewhat functional.




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