Response to my previous two posts about Cracking YouTube has been amazing . Thanks to everyone in the community for the amazingly intelligent discussion that this has spawned, and for all of the high quality responses/comments to the original posts! Keep it up guys, it helps me tremendously and allows me to write more interesting articles like this.
No one has contacted me yet indicating that the technique in part 2 should NOT work by pointing out a hole in the logic. This makes sense, because…
The entire process that i posted about in the article getting you hits on YouTube, i have personally witnessed to work. I’m gonna stop short of saying I violated YouTube’s terms of service by testing it myself, but yes I have witnessed it to work. I did receive an email from some misguided soul who said “This not work proxy is a dead idea post something worth reading please”. I was quite insulted by the lack of effort in that response. I fired back something quite nasty indicating as such, and asking why “proxy is a dead idea” (rofl)!
Because of the continued interest in this topic over the last few days I’ve thought of doing my own “proxy checker” desktop program that would auto-download lists of proxies off the web and filter out the ones that are dead, giving you a list of proxies that will work for you. It would also be able to check any list you give it from a site of your choosing. Is anyone interested in this, and how much would you pay for such a program?
Finally, a shout out to Iswapyou blog reader “Gamma”, who informed me of websites that let you search YouTube or Myspace under their IP. If they let you view the YouTube video using their IP (and not just search for it), this could help a hacker out tremendously and could actually be another exploit that is separate from what i’m describing. I don’t have any experience with these sites so i’d need an iswapyou blog reader to convince me that this would work. If I get some time i might look in to it on my own in the next few days.
Myspace is a complete topic of its own – I have no idea why anyone would want to game it, because there is no “most viewed profile page” section that I know of. A band could script something to rack up plays on their Myspace Music page, however, and in these cases an auto refresh like i described in part one, or, if myspace checks your IP before registering a hit (doubtful), a proxy setup like i described in part two, could help with this.
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Firstly, Justin, I’d like to thank you for your input and research. It’s nice to have a kind source of advice to turn to in these regards. It seems many of the WWW’s most popular sites already banned reloadevery. I was booted out of one site in particular… so that’s one word of caution I’d like to pass along to anyone reading this.
To answer your question, I don’t know what I would pay for a proxy finder program. $10 if it’s as simple of a step as I sense. However, if you could create a program to download into your harddrive that detects valid and tested proxies daily so one never needs to search the internet, then I’d pay what I would for any reliable and convenient program. somewhere between $20-50 depending on the user-friendly quality, and realiability of it all.
Thanks Pepe, I’ll look into that ‘reloadevery’ option on proxyswitcher.
Are there any apps, like reloadevery, that’s new enough to use on these popular sites? One that’s not yet detected?
Whatcha think?
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There still has to be a way that youtube can be hacked for views, as the above no longer work… but people are still getting mass views, and its still not hard to see that they are hacking the system… But how?
There is always one or two consistantly on the fron page with mass views.
Lets see if together we can find the answer here…
nice blog by the way, well done!
I have been testing various ways to bypass the ipcheck on youtube and other sites and nothing has been working yet. However I have a friend that has been testing mass view techniques and he says that they have been working. I believe he is doing the same thing as you by developing a program that would filter out working proxy’s. I will find out and try to post a new way to do it.
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