Gregory's Serverthis is how bots army and click fraud take place. your uniq mobile id means nothing. Here is How they build the 3rd gen, 20 mobiles into a server chassis? 3rd generation click farm fraud involves mobile device servers, centralised and operated by one.
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Ryan Walmsley
@nixCraft As an app dev one of those with boards from different phones would be awesome! Shame they're used for click farming.
Matthias Mailänder
@nixCraft I first thought they were using the CPUs from recycled phones as a cheap and powerful server to compute stuff. 
Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
@MatthiasMailaender @nixCraft @Ryanteck Those boards with tiny adapter cables for multiple vendors to reuse old smartphones for something like cluster servers or development stations would indeed be SO awesome! Unfortunately that would be a lot of development costs with zero support by smartphone vendors for only little profit, so it most likely won't ever happen… *sigh* 
Anꞇóin Ó B.
Web giants playing a thousand different popularity contests make opportunists deciding to optimism an inevitability. The giants are racketeers making everyone else pay a cost just so they can stay in roughly the same place.
Asheville Charlie
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Gabriel Adrian Samfira
@avlcharlie @nixCraft these are also used to spread massive amounts of disinformation and as a tool to mass report accounts that go against a certain narrative. That way they can influence elections, create public outrage and hysteria, amplify conspiracy theories of the dumbest sort and create noise to drown out reason and facts.
Gabriel Adrian Samfira
@avlcharlie @nixCraft crowd psychology is a different beast. "A person is smart. People are dumb." To quote Tommy Lee Jones from Men In Black
Admiral Snackbär
@gabriel @avlcharlie @nixCraft Question is: would the "political branch" work without the economic branch? Just the pure scale of the economic part makes this comparatively cheap. If advertisers wouldn't push billions into this industry, the costs for government actors would be much higher. 
Dawid Rejowski
Imagine smartphones having proper Linux available being normal, so we could actually reuse them as a super cheap but powerful Raspberry Pi replacement.
Viacheslav A.
@nixCraft They don't seem to use any sim-cards, so they don't need IMSI or ICCID, I guess. Why would they need actual mobile motherboards and all this tinkering then, couldn't they get by with several emulators working in parallel?
Viacheslav A.
@maybenot @nixCraft I guess you're right. 
Gorobar
@via4 @maybenot @nixCraft I've asked myself the same question - would have thought a virtualized/emulated environment was the way to go something like that (commenting to see follow-ups)  
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@BryanLastRedDrop @RealGene @nixCraft they know but it also helps them sell more advertising on their platform. Money is involved. They have zero desire to fix it. 
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Sam Utopian
@nixCraft I don’t understand the advantage of doing this instead of generating 20 virtual phone instances… if that is even possible 😅 
Riley S. Faelan
@nixCraft It's a Matrix pod, only it's unscrupulous and manipulative humans mercilessly exploiting innocent cellphones who think they're living on a real network. :blobcatsad:  |
@nixCraft this is SO incredibly cursed omg