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Facebook acct keeps disconnecting

2020-06-02
2020-07-02
  • Michael VanDeMar

    This just started today, 6/1/2020. It keeps disconneting with the following message at the bottom:

    "The action attempted has been deemed abusive or is otherwise disallowed"

    I can click Re-enable and it comes back, but only for a few minutes. This is just when sitting idle, not when actually chatting. I can log into my Facebook account and post just fine, and I can use Messenger on my phone with no issues, this is just on my desktop. I am running Fedora 30, Pidgin version Pidgin 2.13.0-10.fc30 (libpurple 2.13.0).

    In the about window there is what looks like a hash key maybe, not sure what that is, it starts with "f0792", in case that's relevant.

    -Michael

     
  • brandon chubb

    brandon chubb - 2020-06-23

    Yes I'm seeing this as well, and your report matches the approximate timeframe for me as well. I wonder if FB is somehow detecting it's a third party they don't wantn to play nice with?

     
  • brandon chubb

    brandon chubb - 2020-06-24

    Oddly enough, I asked via the support button on FB about this, did not receive an answer, but the behavior stopped.

     
  • Eion Robb

    Eion Robb - 2020-06-25

    This happens because of rate limits. Setting the "Buddy list sync interval" setting in the Advanced tab of the account to a large number (eg 300) can help with this, but it's not foolproof

     
  • brandon chubb

    brandon chubb - 2020-07-02

    Thanks @bigbrownchunx, it was set to 5, which does seem pretty abusive.

     
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