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spotify has a whole economy of bots signing up, uploading fake songs listened by other bots and earning lot of money in the process. I know several people living out of this. A little army of scraper bots is definitely not what they should be the most concerned about.

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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

spotify has a whole economy of bots signing up, uploading fake songs listened by other bots and earning lot of money in the process.

Sure, I understand gaming the system. I have tracks on SoundCloud, and the same economy exists there too. I just do it for fun tho, I’m not interested in any monetary or commercial pursuits. It seems to me tho, that a relatively small number of accounts doing massive scraping would raise an eyebrow or two, no? Roughly, the average a 320 kbps audio track would be around 8 MB +/-, which gives you 10,616,832+/- tracks. Damn!

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- chobeat@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  since botting is so easy, probably they used a lot of accounts to access data that, in theory, is somewhat public. I mean, in an ideal world in which engineers have infinite time sure, they would have noticed, but I do investigations on platform apps for work and trust me, they miss a lot of more fundamental stuff.
  
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