SpK's View Methods - Part 1 - The 'mobile method' (and disguising as Facebook/Twitter)

@BingChen getting several messages about view bots coming back

So, the people who know about this method were kind of smart, and though: “Hey if it shows up as mobile, and can easily be emulated, can’t we make it look like it comes from elsewhere?” And they figured out how to do this. I know a few people that own sites that sell views, and gigs on Fiverr that currently do this, and it is basically just a ripoff, and the price gives away that. There is no way people can sell real views at such prices. Now let’s look at how it is done. When watching a video legitimately with a real PC, and actually being referred through Facebook, we get a parameter called “sdetail”, and “referrer”. I figured out that “sdetail” is not important, so let’s focus on “referrer”. By adding a little parameter to the mobile request (with “app=youtube_mobile” and all that jazz), called “referrer=URL”, we can make the views come from anywhere. So basically appen...

Full article: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/youtube/447873-...