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How does YouTube make money from spam comments?

• doublerabbit 4y ago
  Pay Google, Google turns a blind eye. Why else has Google not cracked down on spam accounts? It has the tech, it knows it has a problem and the best remedy they can come up with is shortened YouTube usernames? There's more to it behind the scenes. A real example is that I worked for a business where my job was to sell email addresses gathered from soft-core pornography websites. A batch of working emails could easily fetch £500. Reddit will sell you accounts for your "campaign" if it profits reddit and it's all the same for any big walled garden.
• Nextgrid 4y ago
  Spammers contribute to user & engagement numbers and might even drive real engagement behind themselves as (angry) real users respond to them.