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How spammers and robots exploit human workers on Mechanical Turk(economist.com)
6 points by Panos 15y ago|0 comments
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by Panos 15y ago
Spot on. It is actually one of the explanations in the Gneezy and Rustichini paper: "consider the practice of paying back a small amount for recycling a soft drink bottle, which is common in many European countries. Anecdotal evidence sugg
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Awsum Shoes! Is it ethical to fix grammatical errors in Internet reviews?(slate.com)
6 points by Panos 15y ago|1 comments
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Pay Enough or Don't Pay at All(behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
129 points by Panos 15y ago|20 comments
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Crowdsourcing: Lessons from Henry Ford(slideshare.net)
2 points by Panos 15y ago|0 comments
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Zappos hires Mechanical Turk to proofread product reviews(boingboing.net)
25 points by Panos 15y ago|8 comments
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Tutorial on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation(behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
8 points by Panos 16y ago|0 comments
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An ingenious application of crowdsourcing: Fix reviews grammar, improve sales (behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
5 points by Panos 16y ago|0 comments
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by Panos 16y ago
See the updated blog post.
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by Panos 16y ago
That, unfortunately, I could not observe. My intuition says that he had a PPC feed for his parked domains and he was using the click.mygeek.com etc services to click on them. Note that he was not always clicking on the links, to maintain
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by Panos 16y ago
OK, I added the screenshots that show the adservers as well. When I was writing the article, I was told not to involve any party that has been defrauded and did not give explicit permission to be involved in the story. Since I see them ment
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by Panos 16y ago
Confirming your observation. I got the explanation: All the targeted sites (e.g., Mevio or Current.TV) now have filters in place. So you will not be able to see the actual landing pages. The landing page will be a blank page as the ad click
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by Panos 16y ago
The screenshots above redirect to a search engine. (My IP had already been used for clicks and I could not generate the ad clicks for the screenshots) If you want to see the scheme in action go to the new domains set up by the scammer: htt
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by Panos 16y ago
All these parts happen within the index2.php of the parked domains (see the section with the title "Re-directions and generating click fraud with normal click patterns"). Take a look at this screenshot: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-R
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by Panos 16y ago
What is a click other than a "redirect" from one page to another? Add the appropriate parameters in the HTTP call and you are done. There is no need for actual user interaction for an HTTP call to be considered a "click". Take a look at the
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by Panos 16y ago
Yes and no. No, because it cannot be used as an exploit. Yes, because it allows you to read the address of the "top" object. Consider it similar to the CSS link-color hack to read the past browsing history of a user.
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Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme(behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
112 points by Panos 16y ago|26 comments
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How many Mechanical Turk users lie about their location(behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
7 points by Panos 16y ago|1 comments
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by Panos 16y ago
But intellectual labor can become an industrial product. Not all products of intellectual effort are theorems and mathematical proofs. And please read this before citing Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/not
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The promise and fear of an assembly line for knowledge work(behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
5 points by Panos 16y ago|2 comments
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Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% Spam.(behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
162 points by Panos 16y ago|27 comments
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by Panos 16y ago
Thanks! I was not aware that a more general audience would be interested in what I am writing. I am writing mainly to organize my own thoughts.
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by Panos 16y ago
Even if it is a prank, it is just awesome :-) But the subsequent letter (not in the blog post), almost hints that the guy is just a crank.
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Web page assignment leads to cease and desist letter. (behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
192 points by Panos 16y ago|18 comments