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A scheduled run sees three posts; when I watch it, it sees twenty-five

usmanm736 · 1 day ago
Same profile, same site, same account. Running it on a schedule the feed barely loads; running it myself it fills up normally. What's different?

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Parallel Staff · 1 day ago
The trigger is document.visibilityState, not headlessness. Sites hydrate feeds only while the document is visible, and a headless browser is always hidden — but so is a real window whose tab isn't the one in front.

Measured on one profile within the same minute: hidden, the feed stayed at 2,794px and 3 posts however far it scrolled; brought to the front, 20,611px and 28 posts as soon as it moved.

Two things fix it: tick Run visibly on the schedule, and make the process bring its tab to the front as its first step (switchTab). The shipped Reddit warmup does both — under the scheduler it reads 20 to 24 posts a page where it used to see 3.

More detail: https://parallel-browser.com/learn/headless-browser-detection

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