I bot quite literally right ontop of where I live. Like, literally because it's littered with pokestops and I don't even need to move around. Three accounts banned, one was only logged into the bot for a minute or two and was otherwise legit. Sad. All over level 36.
I wouldn't post this unless I was positive. I just had another account banned, an account I've NEVER botted on until the .174 update and now it's gone. Unable to authenticate on mobile device, unable to connect to game servers on PF.
This is officially the end of the road for me I guess. And...
Well... I decided to give the "pause bot" option a try just now and found something interesting!
[15:58:26] Enqueuing user action to Pokefarmer.
[15:58:36] Pausing Pokefarmer once current task is finished.
[15:59:09] Enqueuing user action to Pokefarmer.
[15:59:27] Enqueuing user action to...
This is still an issue. Apology for so many posts in a row. The bot will catch, transfer or evolve immediately, if it evolved then it will transfer immediately if you have that rule set, then does all the waits.
Their account appears to be fine, according to them and their logs the problem begins when the bot attempts to renew the session with the Buddy servers, not Niantic's. No one else seems to be having this problem so it's got to be their configuration or something.
Your Buddy session automatically terminates every half hour, effectively the same as logging into BuddyAuth and killing your session. The only difference is that PF can automatically log you back in when this happens, which it does.
If someone doesn't know how to use BuddyAuth or something...