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I mean bot-controlled spamming, like uploading videos, like, fav using private API, dislike & report your competitor's videos etc. Lots of "studios" use these
by est 4y ago
I mean bot-controlled spamming, like uploading videos, like, fav using private API, dislike & report your competitor's videos etc.
Lots of "studios" use these APIs as for-profit astro-turfing, sometimes spreading mis-informatin, with tons of fake accounts
A layer of VM obfuscation helps, like a DRM or packer.
- prox 4y agoWasn’t there also an article on here that showed the sub farms, basically tons of usually girls in a factory floor with cubicles that were streaming for some coin. Not sure if it was China specific.
- thenthenthen 4y agoThis used to be, now its all automated, the devices used (phones) don't even have screens attached anymore, just mainboard+sim
- btown 4y agoAnd specifically, the idea is to make sure that any kind of effort at writing a bots-and-fraudulent-likes-as-a-service platform is such a moving target that it becomes uneconomical to maintain. It's never perfect, as efforts like the OP's attest, but the incremental advertiser trust (and brand trust from a valuation perspective, as we've seen with Twitter's bot problems!) from being ahead in this "arms race" is likely considered worth the cost of hiring obfuscating-compiler engineers.
- joshspankit 4y agoSeems like the same approach as using a different kind of lock on your door: the groups with resources will simply already have the tools they need to get through it and it only really stops people who aren’t at that level yet