Was working on it. Before X started cracking down on bots I had a plan for gaming their monetization but that's gone now, most sites won't let you buy followers there anymore because they get wiped so quickly so I've got to meet the requirements the natural way now and I can't be bothered.
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Why don't you launch your own bots? Just need residential IPs.
Devices with enough processing power to "pass" as a human-controlled device are hard.
A router or printer is definitely not going to cut it...
How would they know it's controlled by a human?
Annoying javascript proof of work stuff. And canvas data extraction.
If your device doesn't reply quickly enough...
A cheap smartphone will pass that.
My Pixel struggles if i have a lot going on. My Huawei sometimes fails Cloudflare eben if I don't.
Sites must suffer a lot of false positives
Okay then an old laptop with a smartphone tethered. Or buy IPs from a vendor. playwright X or Medium, profit
Or start a business leasing computers. Have considered this. The marketing looks hard.
How does that work?
Buy bulk lot of ex-lease business laptops running Windows for cheap.
They're mostly flagship products, well built, but three years old.
Install Linux. Maybe upgrade RAM. Install another admin account, openssh-server, and Tor running a Hidden Service on port 22.
Advertise with a promise of cloud monitoring, and tech support on demand.
Ironically, this will need to be heavily marketed. And I don't know how you'd market this through legal channels
I have done so in a small way on FB and Gumtree.
I haven't made use of my fully legal and disclosed backdoor for anything, though.
But at scale, I could.
Just not sure its worthwhile. Cheap disposable junk laptops from China are so cheap, and consumers so unwary...
I didn't even think of that. I just assume they see a ton of registrations with spammy activity and they block that IP range.
I guess you couldn't use VPN's if that's how they did it though.
Plenty of vendors of mobile IPs. No way to block those. IPv6. Plenty of successful bot farmers around.