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Nowadays the comment section on several channels I watch is full of spam, oftentimes 50+ fake accounts responding to each other in threads.
by aeyes 4y ago
Nowadays the comment section on several channels I watch is full of spam, oftentimes 50+ fake accounts responding to each other in threads.
- labrador 4y agoI don't see that on the videos I watch. For example, this section from a song I recently listened to. Very nice comments. The Beatles - Within You Without You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsffxGyY4ck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsffxGyY4ck Do you see a bunch of spam comments? Maybe my ad blocker is blocking them?
- david_allison 4y agoI see "Video unavailable" + "Comments are turned off"
- labrador 4y agoVery strange. Yours must be from a different cache.
- jahsome 4y agoI think the targets for the spammers are are generally influencers/solo creators. The spammers create imposter profiles to announce phony giveaways, or otherwise appeal to the creators' fan base.
- johnnyanmac 4y agoYup, I watch a lot of critic channels and gaming playthroughs and it's gotten obnoxious. I try to report a dozen but it's surprising they stay up to begin with. That seems like anti-spam 101, don't paste the same message with a suspicious link everywhere (even if it's using 70 burner accounts). Some even try to impersonate the creator, using some weird V to pretend to be a checkmark.
- runevault 4y agoI see it on sports content too and not just solo. Feel like not long ago I saw the garbage on ESPN video comments but I don't pay much attention of late so maybe they went away?
- bmarquez 4y agoI don't think music videos are the top target for spammers. Most finance videos (like general technical analysis, I don't watch crypto content) I watch are full of Whatsapp or Telegram scammers. Even a history channel I follow had to warn that the creator would never solicit money through Whatsapp or Telegram.
- wildrhythms 4y agoProbably referring to the spam accounts that Marques Brownlee called out many months ago[0] tl;dw It's the fake accounts that impersonate the content creator and request users to privately message them. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y
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- RankingMember 4y agoYeah I've seen the multi-account spam scripts way more lately, e.g. one person replies to someone with a vague bit of text with "By the way, does anyone know where I can download free movies and TV shows?" and then a confederate replies linking to some shitware site, then another replies to that person thanking them and reiterating the URL.
- harambae 4y agoI've seen crypto/trading scams as the top comment on every single CNBC clip I watch. It follows the same pattern you describe with a vague opener that almost sounds legitimate (but not quite) and then the spam following in response. It's so reliable on CNBC clips that I almost think those videos comment sections could be used as a training set for spam prevention.
- chrismorgan 4y agoAnd last time I looked (few months ago? and it had been so previous times I looked for at least the year before that) it was mostly trivially obvious spam, following simple patterns that will yield no false positives. This tells me that they don’t care at all: either they’re not doing any actual blacklist filtering based on content patterns (that is, unconditional removal or rejection, rather than merely flagging as probable spam for the channel owner to take action on), or their filters are unmaintained.