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Forgive my scepticism, but I’m going to have to ask you for a screenshot and which country YouTube thought you were connecting from. I’m asking because, at lea

Forgive my scepticism, but I’m going to have to ask you for a screenshot and which country YouTube thought you were connecting from. I’m asking because, at least according to my understanding of YouTube’s ad policies, that shouldn’t be allowed: https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/14009787?hl=en&ref_topic=1626336&sjid=11097654651208011780-NC https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/14009787?hl=en&r...

dmix 2y ago
He said video not ad
- codedokode 2y ago
  It has a "Sponsored" label and doesn't match my interests at all, but is still displayed at the first place.
codedokode 2y ago
Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvlbunSGDmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvlbunSGDmU Screenshot (title has changed from what I wrote earlier or this is another ad): https://imgur.com/a/TX0xB9y https://imgur.com/a/TX0xB9y Country is the one in Europe. Maybe this is not a scam and therefore is allowed? Maybe it is a joke video? I didn't watch the video, but the title and thumbnails looks like a "scam".
- qingcharles 2y ago
  I don't know. I analyzed the code from below the video with GPT[0] and it flagged a bunch of stuff it considered shady. [0] Every time I mention using AI my posts get downvoted to infinity, so take the above with a grain of salt :) I don't know anything about coding crypto, but it looks to me like it has a bunch of functions which each return a little hex string which it merges together into a wallet address which it then transfers all your funds to. I could be totally wrong and it's all above board. Here's the code from the video: https://hastebin.com/share/paxisehuki.php https://hastebin.com/share/paxisehuki.php
  - codedokode 2y ago
    You can see that most functions deal with converting hex strings to bytes or parsing utf-8 despite their name. For example, checkLiquidity seems to just convert hex representation to binary and not what its name says.
    - arctek 2y ago
      The contract is payable, i.e. will accept ether as payment but doesn't actually do anything. From a glance looks like the withdrawal function is setup to generate the address of the scammer - through all of those obfuscated functions that have hex string slices - so ultimately only they can remove the funds.
      - codedokode 2y ago
        It also looks like the contract requires the user to deposit 0.4 ETH for it to work.
  - DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
    The first wallet address in that file has a balance equivalent to $8m USD - dang. https://etherscan.io/address/0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc2 https://etherscan.io/address/0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead...
    - codedokode 2y ago
      I think this might be not an address belonging to the scammer, but an address of an exchange or something like that. Why would he write his address in clear text.
hnfong 2y ago
I can corroborate GP's claim. I've used AdBlock at home, but at work my Youtube main page has a persistent ad that's like what GP described. Location: Hong Kong with an office network that presumably VPNs to USA.

dmix 2y ago

He said video not ad

codedokode 2y ago
It has a "Sponsored" label and doesn't match my interests at all, but is still displayed at the first place.

codedokode 2y ago

Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvlbunSGDmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvlbunSGDmU Screenshot (title has changed from what I wrote earlier or this is another ad): https://imgur.com/a/TX0xB9y https://imgur.com/a/TX0xB9y Country is the one in Europe. Maybe this is not a scam and therefore is allowed? Maybe it is a joke video? I didn't watch the video, but the title and thumbnails looks like a "scam".

qingcharles 2y ago
I don't know. I analyzed the code from below the video with GPT[0] and it flagged a bunch of stuff it considered shady. [0] Every time I mention using AI my posts get downvoted to infinity, so take the above with a grain of salt :) I don't know anything about coding crypto, but it looks to me like it has a bunch of functions which each return a little hex string which it merges together into a wallet address which it then transfers all your funds to. I could be totally wrong and it's all above board. Here's the code from the video: https://hastebin.com/share/paxisehuki.php https://hastebin.com/share/paxisehuki.php
- codedokode 2y ago
  You can see that most functions deal with converting hex strings to bytes or parsing utf-8 despite their name. For example, checkLiquidity seems to just convert hex representation to binary and not what its name says.
  - arctek 2y ago
    The contract is payable, i.e. will accept ether as payment but doesn't actually do anything. From a glance looks like the withdrawal function is setup to generate the address of the scammer - through all of those obfuscated functions that have hex string slices - so ultimately only they can remove the funds.
    - codedokode 2y ago
      It also looks like the contract requires the user to deposit 0.4 ETH for it to work.
- DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
  The first wallet address in that file has a balance equivalent to $8m USD - dang. https://etherscan.io/address/0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc2 https://etherscan.io/address/0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead...
  - codedokode 2y ago
    I think this might be not an address belonging to the scammer, but an address of an exchange or something like that. Why would he write his address in clear text.

hnfong 2y ago

I can corroborate GP's claim. I've used AdBlock at home, but at work my Youtube main page has a persistent ad that's like what GP described. Location: Hong Kong with an office network that presumably VPNs to USA.