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ceceradio / twitter-block-chain

Chrome extension to block all users on a followers/following page.
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Blocking stops after a couple of accounts #28

Closed DrMcCoy closed 5 years ago

DrMcCoy commented 5 years ago

Since the last update, 1.8.0, Twitter Block Chain doesn't work correctly anymore, especially with larger account where I have already blocked a good part.

"Found" and "Already Blocked" keep counting up, but "Blocked" stalls early one, despite the difference between the first two growing.

In the end, the tally might look like this:

Found: 2046

Skipped: 0

Already Blocked: 1591

Blocked: 5

Total: 2046

Errors: 0

I'm on Firefox 66.0.1 (64-bit), on Gentoo Linux.

DrMcCoy commented 5 years ago

Same with exporting.

For example:

Found: 365

Skipped: 0

Exported: 18

Total: 365

And the final list really has only 18 entries.

SKuNKW0RXx commented 5 years ago

Can confirm this happens when scanning an account's followers.

Found : XXXX(total number of followers)

Skipped: 0

Exported: 18

Total : XXXX(total number of followers)

And my final entry has only 18 accounts. I even manually scrolled through 1.9K accounts on a follower list to help propagate the list. Still had no effect on scanning.

DrMcCoy commented 5 years ago

When I first manually load a few pages of followers, it often works (but notalways).

It looks like it stops when the blocking catches up to when followers are still gathered, but the block queue is empty (because there are lots of accounts already blocked).

ceceradio commented 5 years ago

@DrMcCoy is this on the old twitter UI or the new twitter UI?

DrMcCoy commented 5 years ago

Eeerm, I think the old? I haven't noticed any big changes recently, or are they more subtle? How can I tell?

SKuNKW0RXx commented 5 years ago

I've checked using the new UI. I also used a chrome extension called "Twitter DeBubbler" to take it back to the old UI. There was no change on how many accounts it could find. It still stopped at 18.

I also tried the mobile version mobile.twitter.com and it couldn't recognize the accounts to list them.

DrMcCoy commented 5 years ago

Well, okay, now I see what you mean by new UI. I've been forced into it now.

And yes, it seems like this extension works far better with the new UI in general. It seems you even changed how followers are enumerated, because now it grabs 5000 at once instead of 18, and it's not running into the 5000-odd limit (which, I assume, was 300 requests at 18 = 5400?)

I guess now that the new UI is (globally?) being rolled out, and even that opt-out link that worked for a day doesn't work anymore, this issue can be closed?

ceceradio commented 5 years ago

sweet! yeah the new twitter UI is weird but it at least lets us block more people 😈

SKuNKW0RXx commented 5 years ago

So, I hate to comment on a closed thread, but what was the fix action because I'm still stuck at 18.

ceceradio commented 5 years ago

@ghost0001 if you could either open another issue with some screenshots or something that'd help. since there are two UIs floating around its hard to tell where the bug is but it doesnt seem to be in the new UI.