A phone bot farm in action
A phone bot farm in action
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They appear to be scrolling through a single social media feed. This operation is likely what those social media "boosting" services are doing, where they'll bring a ton of new traffic to your profile to try to goad the algorithm into sending real users your way.
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Is there a way to interact with GUI elements of Android using external device like a pc Or something?
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There are a ton of things you can do with a keyboard natively on Android. I would imagine these use that plus a bit of software to emulate "real" movements, like the flicking down to scroll
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If it's just a browser you can connect to chrome devtools via web socket and send commands
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So all my followers/adoring fans are just 1 guy with a laptop? [crushed]
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All of my Twitter followers are thot-bots. I don't even get the good ones that have pictures of cats in their bio. Just poorly photoshopped Kim Kardashian body swaps.
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Looks like these guys, seeding bot farm. Actually has some good writeups of their methodology.
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It's a nightmare that we live in a world where this bullshit even exists.
Or that sci-fi predicted it (For The Win)
i actually just finished another re-read of For The Win, and yeah, that's gotta be more relevant now than ever before ._.
Just another artifact of the fact that advertiser financed businesses is not robust. And the end of them is likely coming nearer.