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Everyone who does anything online should be required to hang out on some black hat internet forums and marketplaces. It really opens up your eyes to the sheer
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
Everyone who does anything online should be required to hang out on some black hat internet forums and marketplaces.
It really opens up your eyes to the sheer size of the fake account and bot traffic, market. It makes you skeptical of everything you see online.
You can buy verified Twitter accounts, blue check mark accounts, Facebook ad accounts, Google AdSense/AdWords accounts, Amazon accounts, and more bot traffic than you can imagine. All for a few hundred dollars at most.
I wonder what the internet would really look like if there was no bot traffic, fake clicks, and fake accounts.
- ms4720 4y agoPorn and cat pictures
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoFurry? You can have both!
- amelius 4y agoThis sent me down a rabbit hole.
- anakaine 4y agoDon't linger too long. You'll wind up like Alice.
- fknorangesite 4y agoThat's one way to put it.
- thrwwy5685865 4y agoEveryone who does anything online should be required to hang out on some black hat internet forums and marketplaces. It really opens up your eyes to the sheer size of the fake account and bot traffic, market. It makes you skeptical of everything you see online. You can buy verified Twitter accounts, blue check mark accounts, Facebook ad accounts, Google AdSense/AdWords accounts, Amazon accounts, and more bot traffic than you can imagine. All for a few hundred dollars at most. I wonder what the internet would really look like if there was no bot traffic, fake clicks, and fake accounts.
- spaceman_2020 4y agoBrilliant! :)
- pixl97 4y ago>I wonder what the internet would really look like if there was no bot traffic, fake clicks, and fake accounts So kind of the internet we had in the early to mid 90s
- Nextgrid 4y ago> I wonder what the internet would really look like if there was no bot traffic, fake clicks, and fake accounts. In an economy where the only thing that matters is actual money there wouldn't be any bots - after all I don't see bots queuing up to buy stuff. This is a problem the bullshit advertising and "growth & engagement" industry brought on themselves. If you pay people to click on stuff, they're gonna click it, tell others to click or build machines to click.
- lovich 4y agoThere are definitely bots to buy things. Finance alone does a fuck ton of automation to buy things at far faster reaction speeds than possible and then there’s the eBay/Amazon/whatever online retail bots that exist to scoop up in demand items to then flip
- Nextgrid 4y agoBots that buy things only do so to address a temporary inefficiency in the market - they won't work perpetually and you can argue their actions do provide value.
- lovich 4y agoIf the bots continually outpace the majority of humanity’s purchasing ability does that mean they don’t exist or do they pass some capitalist Turing test? I asked on behalf of all the bots checking for semantic values on social media and then drop shipping unique /s shirts. I’d link things like this[1] but I can’t be sure you’ll see the same thing I’m linking because they are constantly mutating. We have to accept the fact that algorithms have reached the tech level of convincing a double digit percentage of humanity to do what the algorithm wants because that is what is current reality [1] https://newyorkshirtcompany.com/products/queens-are-born-in-june-10-reasons-shirt-50-off-for-bday-girls-flat-shipping?currency=USD&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz9v8yNOO-QIVGgaICR1vCwPGEAQYAiABEgL86vD_BwE https://newyorkshirtcompany.com/products/queens-are-born-in-...
- pyinstallwoes 4y ago
- hasperdi 4y agoI’m curious… could you give some examples of these blackhat forums?
- zachkatz 4y agohttps://www.blackhatworld.com/ https://www.blackhatworld.com/
- lopatin 4y agoI used to hang out on that forum many years ago during my school lunch breaks, before I found the light. Never thought I’d see the day it’s linked to from HN.
- CSMastermind 4y agoIt reminded me of https://www.antionline.com/ https://www.antionline.com/ which I used to hang out on like 20 years ago. To my surprise it appears to still be up and running.
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