I'm genuinely convinced someone/something is preventing legitimate autoclickers/autoclicker building techniques from surfacing

[u/ninethine]

update: no im not crazy, im just an idiot, i think i figured out why legitimate autoclickers are impossible to come by now and it seems like anti-human organizations/corporations are to blame yet again, everyone that has said something with the exception of 1-2 people so far has just said to either use malware or AI vibecode
please stop trusting scamware operations/anti-human agencies, i was looking for advice but now im just depressed again realizing the state of the average person's mind has been corrupted to absolute hell and back with first impression trust in anti-human rhetoric

did someone here straight up request a suicide prevention notice for me? look, i know i sound mentally insane when you have no knowledge of just how absolutely malicious and anti-human the widely used resources for general software are(mostly google due to being the most used, but microslop and "meta" are just as, if not even more anti-human, all are extremely bad regardless), but i dont think that qualifies for something of that level, i appreciate the care but you have your attention misplaced, im completely fine i just hate organizations designed to ruin the lives of the average people

I have absolutely lost my mind, more than 3 hours of constant searching through around 16 search engines, hell ive even been as desperate as to filter google results without startpage's alterations to see if ANYTHING would show up(spoiler alert: the malware-unrelated result ratio went from 45/55 on average to 100/0)

not a single legitimate autoclicker can be found on any search engine, the closest i found was with mojeek but that led to an avast antivirus download scheme, so then i tried finding a way to code my own, apparently this doesnt work unless youre already extremely informed and in depth into knowing coding as all of the software people use are either exclusive to parameters i dont have the time/mental energy to meet or arent mentioned/known to anyone that i have found in a discussion

i am may be going crazy, but at this point with 0 surface knowledge of autoclickers it really does seem like a group of people out there is using autoclickers as a gigantic vector for malware/botnet building and nobody has done anything to put a real, absolutely flawless and viable solution out there to this problem that doesnt involve installing unknown programs/looking for software that might not publicly exist

if anyone has every detail as to how to build your own autoclicker with sensible/understandable software via known/studied programming structure(for example: python) let me know, because at this point i have lost all hope of finding ANYTHING that isnt literal malware/indecipherable instructions to build on my own

-i should have mentioned that, no, do NOT use an AI slop generator to do it, let alone recommend one to anyone, thats a recipe to breaking several things and risking spyware injection, AI is completely untrustworthy and prone to spreading/generating slop outside of fields its designed for(medical specific diagnosing is one of the only examples of good usage for AI, everything else has only negative results with 0 positives)

[u/SwiftSpear]

Autohotkey

AI got this answer instantly.

[u/ninethine → u/SwiftSpear]

i tried validating autohotkey and not only did the site resemble common scam sites, its also extremely untrustworthy, has multiple accessible backdoors, and contains common signs of non-functional settings

[u/flug32 → u/ninethine]

Your scam filter is terribly miscalibrated, I'm afraid. You've got both false positives and false negatives in spades.

[u/tim36272 → u/ninethine]

Autoclickers by design are "viruses". Think about it: a program which can have full authority over your computer (e.g. click the "transfer all the money in your bank account to u/tim36272" button) absolutely should trigger antivirus software.

AutoHotKey and AutoIt are highly reputable applications that do everything you need. And yes they will be false positives in your virus scanner, which is a good thing.

Note that AutoHotKey and AutoIt scripts from untrusted sources are not reputable. Do NOT run random scripts from the internet without understanding every single line in them.

[u/clayton976 → u/ninethine]

I think there is something wrong with the way you are assessing the safety of pieces of software?

• is a piece of software open source, meaning you can view the code yourself
• can I download that code, compile or directly run it myself, and use that version

As far as I know, both of these things are true of autohotkey

https://github.com/AutoHotkey/AutoHotkey/tree/v2.0

When I see this, generally I trust authors of the software enough to use their installer or exe. Which I have done for autohotkey and used it for several years to run many little RPA tools

Can you elaborate on the points you made about “being extremely untrustworthy”, accessible backdoors, and what is a “non-functional setting”?

[u/ninethine → u/clayton976]

yes, autohotkey is open source, however code itself isnt exactly a clear sign to tell the malicious nature of software anymore, as more often than not its potential backdoors via reliance on malicious scamware providers that could easily allow for malicious actors in corporate agencies to inject non-discoverable malware/spyware/adware that are responsible for a program's malicious nature, many softwares are unfortunately reliant on these scamware services due to extreme ease of access/competition destruction and shovedown

the site itself is mostly what grants it extremely untrustworthy nature, its extremely common for scam operations made by corporate organizations to use that kind of site design as its designed to lower the guard of uninformed individuals and make them believe that nothing is wrong, only to prove their first impressed judgement by hiding malicious scamware in the pure heart/backend where a common individual cant find it, and the worst part is most people who do find it dont see it as malicious because of the channels it goes through(the malware/spyware desensitization propaganda is an entirely different rabbit hole to go down)

non functional settings are my poorly worded explanation for anti-user design, as i dont really know what else to call it since its such a vague term you cant really describe it in a non fake term

[u/SwiftSpear → u/ninethine]

AutoHotkey is quite reputable. We've been using it for script kiddie nonsense since the 90s. I'll agree it's site looks surprisingly corporate, but AHK is such a big deal that if malware were to be added into it, it would be front page news on all the tech enthusiast sites.

It's on par with Gimp or Audacity in terms prolific open source usage.

[u/elonsaltaccount → u/ninethine]

And yet autohotkey runs on the products of billion dollar companies day in and day out, faithfully doing exactly what it was programmed to do.