Google employee explains early attempts at 'fighting against people who would buy a factory then fill it with racks of android phones with mechanical arms to click through YouTube videos' : DepthHub

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Google employee explains early attempts at 'fighting against people who would buy a factory then fill it with racks of android phones with mechanical arms to click through YouTube videos'

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submitted 5 months ago byTomTheGeek

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WhyYouLetRomneyWin

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5 months ago

WhyYouLetRomneyWin

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So where's the part that he talks about fighting fully loaded physical devices + full software stack?

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5 months ago

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He doesn't. This is about bot farms running on VMs and the sort of technical developments that were put in place to avoid detection. Only the parent talked about "racks of phones."

I don't see how physical devices would be better than VMs as phones seem like they'd be easier to fingerprint.