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as someone who has successfully built undetectable bots for a large number of sites, including twitter, I can assure you, it's not that difficult to game (so lo
by dchuk 14y ago
as someone who has successfully built undetectable bots for a large number of sites, including twitter, I can assure you, it's not that difficult to game (so long as you have the right skillset, which I agree with what I think you're saying here in saying that not many have those skills).
Even if only a handful of people have those skills, they can still do quite a bit in terms of spitting out massive amounts of real looking accounts.
If a user can do it in a browser, it can be automated.
- dpeck 14y agoYeah, I think we're on the same page. After doing PoC for that sort of thing the number of easily detectable bots are a bit annoying that they don't put in the relatively trivial amount of effort to make them appear as a real user, but I guess if they're able to get some money in your pocket with that level of effort, more power to them.
- dchuk 14y agoha yeah, I definitely agree. It's amazing how the threshold for quality is with spammers/hackers/script kiddies...a little goes a long way with that kind of stuff