This is a Viral Photo of a Clickfarm from 10 Years Ago, But What Does it Look Like Now?
So click farms started off fully manual. Low paid labourers click links and buttons according to the “click master’s” instructions. And that was a service you could buy if you wanted to fake likes, or fake signups. These look illegal, but I just found out they are not, and that’s why they keep improving.
You see, mass liking might be against a social media’s policy, but it’s not against the law. The person breaking the law, is the person that hires the click farm to commit fraud. Legit engineers work at click farms, and so a few years ago the second generation of click farms emerged. Many mobile devices hooked up to one centralised operator.
And now we have the 3rd generation.
It involves building stacking 20 mobile devices in a server chassis like this. You can buy these anywhere, even the US. Then you stack the servers to get this, and in comparison
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*Evolution of click farm fraud.*
1st generation click farm fraud, fully manual labour. pic.twitter.com/lPZdF7tZL9
— Douglas Mun (@douglasmun) March 23, 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_farm
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