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Everyone who does anything online should be required to hang out on some black hat internet forums and marketplaces. It really opens up your eyes to the sheer size of the fake account and bot traffic, market. It makes you skeptical of everything you see online.

You can buy verified Twitter accounts, blue check mark accounts, Facebook ad accounts, Google AdSense/AdWords accounts, Amazon accounts, and more bot traffic than you can imagine. All for a few hundred dollars at most.

I wonder what the internet would really look like if there was no bot traffic, fake clicks, and fake accounts.




>I wonder what the internet would really look like if there was no bot traffic, fake clicks, and fake accounts

So kind of the internet we had in the early to mid 90s


Brilliant! :)




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