Quizzes and Polls not completing (or even attempting)

[ChippewaBarr]

Seems to be a bug with some of the quizzes and polls.

I usually open Chrome and leave it to do it's thing (since sometimes it takes a long time for the rewards page to 'realize' that the task has been completed) but it seems it's having trouble completing (or even loading) some quizzes.

The tabs will open but the quizzes/polls will not complete, and even further, the quizzes and polls won't even load at the bottom of the page as per normal...the page just contains the search results.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled the extension, reset Chrome and tried Incognito mode, but no change.

Daily streak search and other searches work fine, but quizzes and polls seem to be having issues,

[ChippewaBarr]

Here's what I get when these specific quizzes open: (https://imgur.com/a/nKdHqhw)

And here's a paste of the generated URLs (https://pastebin.com/ZrRnAw0r)

[wearysky]

I've noticed similar weird behaviour - it opens the links to everything but doesn't seem to complete them. I'm wondering if it's a timing issue? I might try messing around with the source a little bit, and put a delay in between every link's "click" and see if that makes a difference.

[wearysky]

So, just an update: 30 seconds didn't appear to be long enough, but increasing the delay between each "click" to 60 seconds seems to have fixed the issue. Now when I wake up in the morning, all of my polls and quizzes work.

[wearysky]

@ChippewaBarr I forked and added my change (that's the only difference) here: https://github.com/wearysky/ABS

[h4x0rm1k3]

For some reason i'm not getting notifications and only just kind of worked out what was happening this morning and was thinking of finding where to add a wait or timer before the rewards started because it seems as soon as search runs it takes over so my thinking was to try and add a 3 minute delay to rewards starting which should be plenty long enough for searches to complete and allow rewards to also complete after the 3 minute delay. I'm glad @wearysky jumped in and found a similar solution to what I was thinking so if that works then it's worth sticking with that and i'll fork it from there if ok to keep this git up to date as well. If by any chance it breaks again though similarly or reports that it doesn't work come in then it might be worth looking in to adding the 3 minute delay to rewards starting so that searches complete before rewards start going.

[h4x0rm1k3]

I see now that the fix by @wearysky does exactly what I was intending on trying to implement myself in that both the searches and initial rewards tabs open but only the searches run (even if you try to click the open rewards tasks button in the ABS add on menu it still has that timer), then a minute later after the searches have easily completed the rewards tabs will open up, perfect! I will say though that I noticed a few of my searches weren't being completed a while back so I upped the amount of searches my accounts do each day so i altered my own personal code I run to use 3 minutes instead of 1, the code I changed in my Git is the 1 minute version. Thanks again for the fix @wearysky

[ChippewaBarr]

Good work @wearysky @h4x0rm1k3 for keeping this going. @h4x0rm1k3 is this new 3 minute delay present in your latest release? If so, I'll download and reinstall again.

And If I'm following this correctly...what it does is lets the searches take place over three minutes, and when that three minutes is up, it begins the quizzes and polls?

[h4x0rm1k3]

@ChippewaBarr My code only has the 1 minute delay and not 3 minutes, my personal use code has a 3 minute delay because I do a lot more searches so 1 minute just won't do. As for how it runs you've got it exactly right, searches 1st for 1 minute and then rewards kick in after that delay.

[wearysky]

Looks like whatever was going on with today's tasks, my changes didn't work. @h4x0rm1k3 did your local changes work better for you today?

[wearysky]

And to be clear, I'm totally fine with my changes going away, I only created the fork just in case this one had been abandoned :)

[h4x0rm1k3]

@wearysky Yes for the past 3 days now mine have ran perfectly with the delay, i've just checked in on todays ones and they're running along nicely as well so my guess is that your searches took a little longer than usual today so it might be worth rising your delay a little further to see if that helps at all. If I get a few more reports of them still not completing with a 1 minute delay i'll update the code to what I use myself in the hopes that it works for all that way. No probs forking and updating the code, it's what I did myself anyway as the original guy wasn't updating it anymore.

[wearysky]

Failed again today. Gonna update the delay to 3 minutes and see how it goes. It's running at 2am so it's not like it really matters what the delay is :)

[ChippewaBarr]

Yeah mine's not working as well either.

@h4x0rm1k3 would you be able to update the code to include the 3min delay? I'm not exactly the best at coding this type of stuff lol.

[h4x0rm1k3]

@ChippewaBarr Done, the code now has a 3 minute delay before rewards start. That should be long enough for around 100-110 searches total as I do 50 desktop and 40 mobile searches and that takes 2 minutes and 30 seconds when I run mine.

[ChippewaBarr]

@h4x0rm1k3 awesome thanks for the change!

I'll run your new version for a while and see if anything goes wrong lol, here's hoping!