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How does one theoretically get around the various anti-bot measures that the social media platforms have instituted? When I try to create a human account it as
by fareesh 7y ago
How does one theoretically get around the various anti-bot measures that the social media platforms have instituted?
When I try to create a human account it asks for a phone number and Twitter seems to have a bit of an overzealous system that blocks new accounts for "suspicious" activity. YouTube has similar measures in place for registration. Most of them have captcha as well.
Do these folks use humans to complete the registration and then have bots use the accounts?
- Tenoke 7y agoThere are services that sell proxies straight from their users' machines, so the traffic looks completely normal. You can also buy a lot of phone numbers for cheap if needed, though the phone requirement is almost always circumventable if nothing else is suscpicious. As for captchas - breaking them is trivial, there are services that do it but you can also beat most/all captchas with mturk for gathering data + training an off the shelf CV model. A social media bot army is a project that a single developer with relevant experience/time can complete on their own, providing they are willing to spend a little bit.