Hey, is anyone sitting on a PHP cloaker that works for IG? It should be a very simple and lightweight script because IG crawlers never have mobile resolution, so you can just send all mobile users to the lander and the desktop PC to a pre-lander button page.
I figure it’s such a easy script that tons of people should be sitting on it. If no one wants to share I guess I will try to code it myself. Either way, have a good day.
I want it to be server sided hence why I don’t want to use JavaScript.
I searched and searched (in the past), but I was never able to find something. And I would be able to make something myself, if I would know the requirements.
I made a list of ways to recognise IG crawlers. But every way I could think off would be easy to bypass by IG. You can filter on IP, but that will not work if they buy a new block with IP’s. You can filter with user agents, but that is also too easy. I have been thinking about something with cookies, but stopped after reading that crawlers can also accept cookies. I really cannot come up with a way to do this well.
My spam accounts got hammered but my client accounts where not affected, when i figured out why i just used that method on my spam accounts - no issues that can`t be resolved now!
So you used a secret method you also use with client accounts on your spam accounts and now all issues are resolved ?
You are almost making me curious.
What I noticed was very simple. I started with about 150 accounts having a PV. Phone numbers attached were a combination of real numbers of Dutch and Spanish sims I own, and smspva numbers from Russia, Ukraine and Indonesia.
The accounts having numbers from real sims all survived, I could receive the sms on the same number already in the account. ALL accounts having other numbers I did not own got a ban after using another number to verify.