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Guides for Clearer Instagram Task Decisions

Planned workflow: Find practical guides for sources, lists, task control, and account troubleshooting. Choose help that matches what you are trying to do.

Which guide should I read before choosing a task?

Choose a source-selection guide for target populations, the CSV guide for local input, or the non-follower guide for relationship completeness. Unexpected automatic following is a separate troubleshooting intent, not a reason to start an automation task.

Choose a source

Use the source guide to distinguish profile audiences, post engagers, content authors, and an imported list. Similar keyword wording does not make those sources interchangeable.

Protect accounts

Read the protected-list and CSV guides before importing important exceptions. List membership and task history have separate purposes and deletion rules.

Understand incomplete data

Use the relationship-data guide when counts or previews look incomplete. Do not equate a missing row with a confirmed non-follower.

Troubleshoot unexpected following

Unexpected automatic following is a troubleshooting question, not automatically a request for an automation product. Start with the independent stopping and account-review guides.

Official sources & scopeChrome: storage and cookies — Local extension storage and service workersChrome: extension service worker lifecycle — Worker termination and persistent state

These sources explain platform behavior. Product-specific scope and limits come from our implementation registry; they are not an endorsement by Instagram, Google, or Stripe.

Current Instagram settings and live source behavior are not yet verified. These links support only the topics named beside them.

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