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Aren't there farms of mobiles on racks in Thai and Chinese houses set up specifically to game those ratings? (Remembering some arrests within the last month or

Aren't there farms of mobiles on racks in Thai and Chinese houses set up specifically to game those ratings? (Remembering some arrests within the last month or so...)

wingerlang 9y ago
I guess you mean this one: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/12/15786402/thai-clickfarm-bust-iphones https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/12/15786402/thai-clickfarm-b... Would be easy to assume there are many such setups around the world. Speaking of which, how are they controlling iPhones like this? I cannot imagine they are all jailbroken, so how do they achieve automation like this? FB also has a huge setup like this https://code.facebook.com/posts/300815046928882/the-mobile-device-lab-at-the-prineville-data-center/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/300815046928882/the-mobile-d... but it doesn't exactly say how it is done.
- fragmede 9y ago
  Manpower is cheap in developing countries, why automate any of it? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Clc-CCAUYAABB76.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Clc-CCAUYAABB76.jpg That particular image is from a TV show, but when people say "click farms", that's what to picture. Imagine creating email addresses to make app store accounts to rate apps. For 10 hours, every day, for $1/hour.
  - fooker 9y ago
    $1/hour is more than a reasonable rate for this in any developing country. Most blue collar jobs pay significantly lower.
  - wingerlang 9y ago
    I am asking how, not why/why not. In the video you can see that they did actually automate it.
- vitovalov 9y ago
  I'm sure Google/Apple know about this and have the measures to detect it. It's as easy as see the location of the IP from which they installed or a lot of other parameters they track. What surprises me is that they allow this since it's totally unfair to developers like me and my girlfriend that make a great effort in the time free of work to make those apps...
  - wingerlang 9y ago
    I am more interested in the part where they control the devices programatically rather than what they are doing with it.
userbinator 9y ago
I think the OP is asking about this in particular: As far as I know Google Play allows you to rate an app only when you have installed it. If someone was using "farms of mobiles", you'd expect the installs to go up too.
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jasonkostempski 9y ago
Arrests? For gaming an app store rating system?

Aren't there farms of mobiles on racks in Thai and Chinese houses set up specifically to game those ratings? (Remembering some arrests within the last month or so...)

wingerlang 9y ago

I guess you mean this one: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/12/15786402/thai-clickfarm-bust-iphones https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/12/15786402/thai-clickfarm-b... Would be easy to assume there are many such setups around the world. Speaking of which, how are they controlling iPhones like this? I cannot imagine they are all jailbroken, so how do they achieve automation like this? FB also has a huge setup like this https://code.facebook.com/posts/300815046928882/the-mobile-device-lab-at-the-prineville-data-center/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/300815046928882/the-mobile-d... but it doesn't exactly say how it is done.

fragmede 9y ago
Manpower is cheap in developing countries, why automate any of it? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Clc-CCAUYAABB76.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Clc-CCAUYAABB76.jpg That particular image is from a TV show, but when people say "click farms", that's what to picture. Imagine creating email addresses to make app store accounts to rate apps. For 10 hours, every day, for $1/hour.
- fooker 9y ago
  $1/hour is more than a reasonable rate for this in any developing country. Most blue collar jobs pay significantly lower.
- wingerlang 9y ago
  I am asking how, not why/why not. In the video you can see that they did actually automate it.
vitovalov 9y ago
I'm sure Google/Apple know about this and have the measures to detect it. It's as easy as see the location of the IP from which they installed or a lot of other parameters they track. What surprises me is that they allow this since it's totally unfair to developers like me and my girlfriend that make a great effort in the time free of work to make those apps...
- wingerlang 9y ago
  I am more interested in the part where they control the devices programatically rather than what they are doing with it.

userbinator 9y ago

I think the OP is asking about this in particular: As far as I know Google Play allows you to rate an app only when you have installed it. If someone was using "farms of mobiles", you'd expect the installs to go up too.

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jasonkostempski 9y ago

Arrests? For gaming an app store rating system?