Youtube detects 4g proxies and dosent increase CTR!

[Russ Thomas]

Hey guys! I hope you all are doing well.
YouTube now can detect 4g proxies; I've been using Firefox with multiple extensions with YouTube accounts to engage with my videos. The impressions are being counted but the CTR is not... This blows my mind because each view I do gets registerted as unique viewer but it dosen't register as an actual "click", thus not increasing the CTR of the video.
There are possible reasons for this...
1. YouTube dosent count 4g proxies as true "home ip's", so it dosen't count for CTR... which i know is most likely not the case.
2. YouTube can detect my PC and understand that the accounts are coming from the same device... probably the case, even though i'm using a fingerprint blocker, user agent switcher and webrtc plugin, which still might not be enough.
3. the 4g proxy i'm using is a shared proxy with up to 3-5 people, which could most likely be the case? but its still odd because there are many people that use the same 4g towers in the same area.
If there's any of you that see this and understands how to bypass this and increase CTR please reach out to me, I would love to learn how to get around this issue, and if there is anyone who has any questions or would like to make a suggestion, you're more than welcome to reply!!

 

[mnrfas]

i think they collect pc/modem mac adresses now

 

[sothisisnightlife]

Or maybe Youtube has been reading our posts and patched it?!

 

[Russ Thomas]

Or maybe Youtube has been reading our posts and patched it?!

yes youtube is definitely on forums, but then again theres thousands of people out there doing the same stuff as us if not more advanced. theres only so much youtube can do to limit these things

 

[Russ Thomas]

i think they collect pc/modem mac adresses now

this could definitely be it. one solution for this i beleive could be by using multilogin or a vps for each account, so it has its own unique computer device

 

[TomTheCat]

i think they collect pc/modem mac adresses now

MAC address cannot be read if you browse from desktop. If you use the Youtube app on smartphones or smart TVs, then yeah.

 

[Russ Thomas]

MAC address cannot be read if you browse from desktop. If you use the Youtube app on smartphones or smart TVs, then yeah.

okay this means that they are most likely detecting that the accounts are coming from the same system. so if each account was on its own unique "computer" then it would most likely work

 

[RoyalCobra777]

Just from proxies? What about the normal connection like you described in your method.

 

[Russ Thomas]

Just from proxies? What about the normal connection like you described in your method.

its weird, think its not working with the 4g anymore, i got to run more tests. i used my regular home wifi with my ip and it worked fin. so it has to do with the proxy and device being detected

 

[ledaponey]

i think they collect pc/modem mac adresses now

That's exactly what they doing now, "technically" they can't but obviously the're getting this data too so... Try to change it, also the user agent and browser, resolution, watch time and even window size. Try to send mouse moves / screen scrolls too.


################## MAC CHANGER ##################

echo 'DISPLAY: MAC Address - Changing MAC Address';
hexchars='0123456789ABCDEF';
end=$( for i in {1..6} ; do echo -n ${hexchars:$(( $RANDOM % 16 )):1} ; done | sed -e 's/\(..\)/:\1/g' );
macchy='XX:XX:XX'$end;
echo 'DISPLAY: MAC Address - New MAC Address is '$macchy;
sudo ip link set dev eth0 address $macchy;
sleep 1s;

################## END MAC CHANGER ##################

That may help someone else, change XX:XX:XX to any valid provider not going to leak the ones I'm using since there are a lot of valid ones

 

[Russ Thomas]

That's exactly what they doing now, "technically" they can't but obviously the're getting this data too so... Try to change it, also the user agent and browser, resolution, watch time and even window size. Try to send mouse moves / screen scrolls too.


################## MAC CHANGER ##################

echo 'DISPLAY: MAC Address - Changing MAC Address';
hexchars='0123456789ABCDEF';
end=$( for i in {1..6} ; do echo -n ${hexchars:$(( $RANDOM % 16 )):1} ; done | sed -e 's/\(..\)/:\1/g' );
macchy='XX:XX:XX'$end;
echo 'DISPLAY: MAC Address - New MAC Address is '$macchy;
sudo ip link set dev eth0 address $macchy;
sleep 1s;

################## END MAC CHANGER ##################

That may help someone else, change XX:XX:XX to any valid provider not going to leak the ones I'm using since there are a lot of valid ones

Yup this is exactly what they are doing! Also another way to do it is by cloning your mac address on your router settings. this will change your ip as well. I did this to make sure

 

[444444]

Yup this is exactly what they are doing! Also another way to do it is by cloning your mac address on your router settings. this will change your ip as well. I did this to make sure

But HOW can they do that via the browser if you're not using chrome

 

[ledaponey]

But HOW can they do that via the browser if you're not using chrome

I don’t really know, I thought it was impossible until they started catching them real quick in real time, as soon as I implemented the script above the filter went gone and they started coming again as usual. Keep in mind that most of the browsers are Chrome or even Chromium based so... I don’t really know

 

[RoyalCobra777]

I don’t really know, I thought it was impossible until they started catching them real quick in real time, as soon as I implemented the script above the filter went gone and they started coming again as usual. Keep in mind that most of the browsers are Chrome or even Chromium based so... I don’t really know

So what you're saying is that even if you get 20 browsers and use 1 account/browser it's still useless because YT can detect that?

 

[ledaponey]

So what you're saying is that even if you get 20 browsers and use 1 account/browser it's still useless because YT can detect that?

At this point, yes, I think that, no matter how many IPs you get if you aren't changing randomly almost any computer / phone variables such as hostname, IP (proxy or whatever), screen resolution, window size, watch time, the mac / physical address and many other variables. I wouldn't risk accounts in the meantime, we're fighting some kind of AI so they can see a pattern if they see a spike of 800 views coming from the same screen resolution, the same user agent, the same average watch time... Whatever, must be random, but not that random

 

[StephenYT]

Ok, so you said what is not working with 100 acounts or not even with 10 account on 1 phone? Whats the limit?

 

[russellcool]

Hey guys! I hope you all are doing well.
YouTube now can detect 4g proxies; I've been using Firefox with multiple extensions with YouTube accounts to engage with my videos. The impressions are being counted but the CTR is not... This blows my mind because each view I do gets registerted as unique viewer but it dosen't register as an actual "click", thus not increasing the CTR of the video.
There are possible reasons for this...
1. YouTube dosent count 4g proxies as true "home ip's", so it dosen't count for CTR... which i know is most likely not the case.
2. YouTube can detect my PC and understand that the accounts are coming from the same device... probably the case, even though i'm using a fingerprint blocker, user agent switcher and webrtc plugin, which still might not be enough.
3. the 4g proxy i'm using is a shared proxy with up to 3-5 people, which could most likely be the case? but its still odd because there are many people that use the same 4g towers in the same area.
If there's any of you that see this and understands how to bypass this and increase CTR please reach out to me, I would love to learn how to get around this issue, and if there is anyone who has any questions or would like to make a suggestion, you're more than welcome to reply!!

it's not about your IP address
it's about screen resolution sizes , your device timezone , your clicks , behaviors and cookies.
if you don't have any browsing history and cookies or u don't have unique cookies that are not somehow same with your google accounts search history they gonna know.

and also check whoer (dot) net if u wanna know more about your browser and ip .

 

[RoyalCobra777]

Why YouTube tries so hard to detect bots. They are never gonna stop them anyway

Really? This is how you try to increase your post count?

 

[ledaponey]

Why YouTube tries so hard to detect bots. They are never gonna stop them anyway

They shooting their own feet, if this shit continues that way we’ll fill the whole servers with crap videos with no views, if we can make bots to drive views we can make bots to make the whole platform a problem full of shit content so don’t worry, we’ll take care of them sooner or later

 

[Russ Thomas]

it's not about your IP address
it's about screen resolution sizes , your device timezone , your clicks , behaviors and cookies.
if you don't have any browsing history and cookies or u don't have unique cookies that are not somehow same with your google accounts search history they gonna know.

and also check whoer (dot) net if u wanna know more about your browser and ip .

Exactly, currently testing out a setup for each account and im able to do it with datacenter proxies XD. no likes or views are dropping!