What in the fuck did you expect! Literally nothing changed about follow bots. Just the sincere third party devs Twitch apparently cares so much about got fucked. And now we have to find ways to somehow do in-app follows (using your 50MB of JS website for a fucking follow button is a waste of everyone’s time and resources) and yet not break TOS and DA at the same time. Shit like this makes me consider leaving developing for this platform altogether (I assume other devs have the same feelings as me). I’ve personally seen ‘illegal’ GQL stuff (not my own obviously) break less than programs using your official APIs for fucks sake!
Something is obviously wrong here.
Was it worth pissing off a chunk of your dev community for stopping a small part (as per what Barry said) of the follow botting procedure? I do not think so. Just look at this damn thread!
How about rate-limitting following to something a normal user won’t exceed? You already do this kind of a thing for clips for third parties apps.