Info-No Bots are Safe-

As the title states above I have come to the conclusion that NO BOTS ARE SAFE

The reason this is, is I've used a very wide variety of bots from MPGH forums, all have worked wonderfully and without a hitch yet no matter how HUMANIZED the SETTINGS are, it seems within a matter of time, be it hours, days, or even a week Niantic still finds a way to flag the accounts and thus ends up PERMANENTLY banning them. While I have not compiled my "configurations" to share with you all just be assured that they are as HUMANIZED as possible in my opinion, not going over certain Pokemon per hour as well as PokeStops, not exceeding over 5-9 KM/H. What I have noticed is when ANY bot says "THROTTLING API CALLS" it would seem this is in fact Niantic FLAGGING your account. Though I cannot prove this with actual information it is an educated guess, I've noticed upon seeing this in any bot, that eventually down the road, a few hours or a day or so it is unable to find PokeStops, know we all know this to be a "IP BAN" well it may or may not be, Now I've waiting a few hours or even a day and started the bot over again, changing route locations and some other configurations such as delay time, making it more delayed and such, and then once again whenver it says "THROTTLING API CALLS" its followed by what seems to be a SoftBan, then as most bots know tell you when they think you are BANNED, to check your phone or you can't find any PokeStops, ect, ect. You are indeed BANNED. I've done this with MULTIPLE BOTS and all results have turned out the same. So I advise anyone who is currently BOTTING to stop if you want to keep the account. Now I don't have any visual proof because I didn't anticipate on making a thread like this, but in the future if this thread becomes popular I'll create new BOTTING accounts and let them run as I did before and when they're banned, post the visual proof. You don't have to believe this by any means, this is more of information I've come to see myself, as I'm sure some others have ran into as well.

Using the Catchem Bot that seems to be widely popular now. HUMANIZED settings, botted no longer than 6-8 hours.

I made a new account and started to use hackmon for the past few hours with my location in new york. Have you guys actually changed the location of where you bot because that might be a problem. From what I can tell is that hackmon puts you outside the US and then whenever you log back on your in america it can lead to a straight ban. I recommend just getting the longitude and latitude of a major area in your city and just make the bot do its thing. Personally I live in ny and let the bot go crazy at 42nd street since their are poke stops every street. Forget to mention this earlier but I made that account this moment from me commenting. The only thing I did was first go onto my phone and choose my name and starter. After that I let the bot go crazy until level 5, I stopped the bot and turned off my phone gps and opened the app. I accepted whatever I needed and let the bot go off. Finally I did bot for maybe 5-6 hours in total today I'm level 18 but I did take small breaks and opened my phone to level up and transfer the weaker pokemon.

Keep in mind also that Niantic love to MASS BAN as it has more impact on the community and gives the impression to legit users that they are taking action against the growing problem, so it might not happen in a day or week but will happen.

If you have logged in from a phone or tablet or same IP with your legit account, they will also be flagged and will most probably suffer the same fate.

I think some bots are just very slightly better compared to others in terms of getting banned. Maybe also depends on locations? and botting duration? Idk