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There is no way those views are coming from Facebook, the traffic is too expensive based on the rates they are charging. The view companies are just faking the
by matznerd 15y ago
There is no way those views are coming from Facebook, the traffic is too expensive based on the rates they are charging.
The view companies are just faking the refferer. This is a common technique in internet marketinn. I used to sell clients views services like that, and I've helped videos go viral by ordering from multiple sources and getting over 100,000 views in less than 72 hours, propelling the videos to the front page. This results in the videos actually getting real organic views way beyond what was "fake."
- javascriptlol 15y agoThis is completely unethical.
- matznerd 15y agoWhat is unethical about that? The video was going to get views anyway, I was just helping it out. It's like the snowball effect that would occur naturally, except they start with a bigger snowball. I don't do this stuff anymore though, that was when I was younger and in college.
- javascriptlol 15y agoI'm not saying you're a bad person. Hell, I've done plenty of unethical stuff in my time. But generating fraudulent views is a clear abuse of the system. You're simply rationalising it away.
- roel_v 15y agoYour assumption is that a 'clear abuse of the system' is unethical. Overflowing a char buffer to get control of EIP is also a 'clear abuse of the system', yet I have a hard time qualifying that (by itself) as unethical.
- robryan 15y agoMaybe they are embedding them in apps/ business pages.
- matznerd 15y agoThat's possible as well, but they still would have had to drive traffic to those pages, and again, ads would be too expensive. I had a client who requested that the people be real, and so instead of bot views that normal providers used, I found another guy. Apparently the people were tricked into watching the video with a clickjack from a pr0n website.