Comments on: Spam on Video Sites? http://newteevee.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/ NewTeeVee Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:57:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Estimate: 20% of Web Videos are Spam http://newteevee.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/#comment-262684 Estimate: 20% of Web Videos are Spam Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:15:37 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/#comment-262684 <p>[...] techniques are nothing new — see our previous coverage — but it’s notable that they’ve become so [...]</p> [...] techniques are nothing new — see our previous coverage — but it’s notable that they’ve become so [...]

]]> By: Britney Spears Addict http://newteevee.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/#comment-234975 Britney Spears Addict Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:22:04 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/#comment-234975 <p>Spam videos are just an inevitablity, when you consider that the content surge of the internet just continues to grow and grow. It's just like Wikipedia: it continues to grow and eventually it will be so large, no one is going to bother (or be crazy enough) to try to support something like that.</p> Spam videos are just an inevitablity, when you consider that the content surge of the internet just continues to grow and grow. It’s just like Wikipedia: it continues to grow and eventually it will be so large, no one is going to bother (or be crazy enough) to try to support something like that.

]]> By: Josh Warner http://newteevee.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/#comment-2392 Josh Warner Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:19:56 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/#comment-2392 <p>Any competent advertiser will see right through video views that are generated through auto page refreshers or other bots. Those are the accounts with a lot of views but no comments or favorites. We work with major brands and don't go near any programs that could get our clients flagged or suspended.</p> Any competent advertiser will see right through video views that are generated through auto page refreshers or other bots. Those are the accounts with a lot of views but no comments or favorites. We work with major brands and don’t go near any programs that could get our clients flagged or suspended.

]]> By: Jackson West http://newteevee.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/#comment-2393 Jackson West Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:28:15 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/#comment-2393 <p>There was some talk about clickfraud on YouTube in Austin -- it's my understanding that they don't do anything to keep a simple Perl bot from loading and reloading a page until hits start up in the thousands. No reason you couldn't create a core of dummy users to game the ratings and comments while you're at it.</p> There was some talk about clickfraud on YouTube in Austin — it’s my understanding that they don’t do anything to keep a simple Perl bot from loading and reloading a page until hits start up in the thousands. No reason you couldn’t create a core of dummy users to game the ratings and comments while you’re at it.

]]> By: Ty Graham http://newteevee.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/#comment-2391 Ty Graham Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:25:39 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/#comment-2391 <p>Think about it a different way...</p> <p>Spam can come through fake tags on ANY service... including online video sites. MANY do it already, with promoting a dating sites. Post a HOT person, label some viral tags surely to be found, WHAM! 40k views!! All you had to do for them to get YOUR SITE <strong>WITHOUT</strong> being a "DIRECTOR" on youtube was to WATERMARK my URL on the video and LIE that you can find more videos on MY URL...</p> <p>It's a gaping security hole. I am not sure it can easily be fixed using the conventional means...</p> <p>I know how to fix it though... It's never been done before but hints are all over the place...</p> <p>Soon, everyone is going to get blipd!</p> Think about it a different way…

Spam can come through fake tags on ANY service… including online video sites. MANY do it already, with promoting a dating sites. Post a HOT person, label some viral tags surely to be found, WHAM! 40k views!! All you had to do for them to get YOUR SITE WITHOUT being a “DIRECTOR” on youtube was to WATERMARK my URL on the video and LIE that you can find more videos on MY URL…

It’s a gaping security hole. I am not sure it can easily be fixed using the conventional means…

I know how to fix it though… It’s never been done before but hints are all over the place…

Soon, everyone is going to get blipd!

]]> By: Kimberly http://newteevee.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/#comment-2390 Kimberly Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:43:49 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/spam-on-video-sites/#comment-2390 <p>There was also Gawker's <a href="http://advancedmediacommittee.typepad.com/emmyadvancedmedia/2007/02/bootlegging_boo.html" rel="nofollow"> "bootlegging of bootlegged videos"</a> on YouTube.</p> <p>That was the first I heard about this kind of Spam. I have a feeling it is going ot get a lot worse. Maybe everyone reading the WSJ will try it now.</p> <ul> <li>Kimberly</li> </ul> There was also Gawker’s “bootlegging of bootlegged videos” on YouTube.

That was the first I heard about this kind of Spam. I have a feeling it is going ot get a lot worse. Maybe everyone reading the WSJ will try it now.

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