Looks like Forfrendongles uncovered a major shilling operation on large reddit subs. Collecting into on other users? It appeared to be at least partly automated but with seemingly organic user replies. Though it could also be super advanced difficult to to discern bot comments.
I remember this from the time. It had to do with Reddit's CDN (content delivery network) in AWS, it was not what he thought it was. I remember going to his little tool or something and seeing the same type of IP for myself.
What they CLAIM. that's the difference.
I saw that post back in the day, I clicked his "app" he made, and got the same AWS CDN IPs that he had in the post. I know I was on an ISP out of Montreal and the IP I got from his app made no sense. Take that for what you will. Whatever he did got the IP of reddits CDN every time because the link was based off where it was posted and he didn't even really understand what he as coding. I've worked in IT 23 years now, call me a shill if you want, believe BS if you want, just giving you a extra thread to tug on here.
Looks like Forfrendongles uncovered a major shilling operation on large reddit subs. Collecting into on other users? It appeared to be at least partly automated but with seemingly organic user replies. Though it could also be super advanced difficult to to discern bot comments.
I remember this from the time. It had to do with Reddit's CDN (content delivery network) in AWS, it was not what he thought it was. I remember going to his little tool or something and seeing the same type of IP for myself.
But that doesn't explain instaclicks. Nor does it explain different IP behaviour when tested with friends and alt accounts.
What they CLAIM. that's the difference. I saw that post back in the day, I clicked his "app" he made, and got the same AWS CDN IPs that he had in the post. I know I was on an ISP out of Montreal and the IP I got from his app made no sense. Take that for what you will. Whatever he did got the IP of reddits CDN every time because the link was based off where it was posted and he didn't even really understand what he as coding. I've worked in IT 23 years now, call me a shill if you want, believe BS if you want, just giving you a extra thread to tug on here.