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0 pointssnowfield1y ago0 comments

They shut them down pretty much right away, but they pop back up right away too. And they usually viewbot to the top of the front page.

Seems like a fairly simple thing to solve though, limit ages of accounts needed to be featured etc

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nubinetwork1y ago· 3 in thread

I wouldn't be surprised if alot of the viewbots are using the same pool of IP addresses. Blocking VPNs, VPSes, tor, and ranges with large amounts of bans would probably help.

On the other hand, twitch keeps firing employees, so they probably just ban the stream account every 20 minutes because they don't have the manpower.

simfree1y ago

There are a ton of sketchy browser plugins that form VPN relay networks.

I would be very surprised if they are not using a new, clean residential IP on a US ISP for each and every account.

Grimblewald1y ago

does twitch auto-generate subtitles? just mine what is being transcribed for signs of being likely to be a scam.

Grimblewald1y ago

kids starving in Africa doesn't mean families struggling to put food on the table for their kids in America have an ideal situation. Grim is relative to local conditions, not global ones. Grim is an expression of an environments impact on the psyche and will to live.

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