View Botting, Proxies, and YouTube

[almanac3000]

I'm currently developing a view bot for YouTube. It's obviously ideal to use residential proxies, but since most residential proxies charge by bandwidth, I have been looking to find some options that would reduce overhead (by reducing bandwidth).

There are what I want to discuss:
1. Would running a headless browser work to reduce bandwidth?
2. Is there a way to simulate the video being played, without actually streaming the contents of the video and taking bandwidth? Maybe through DOM?

 

[captchakiller]

I don't think using headless browser reduces bandwidth unless you block images etc from being loaded but that does not require headless.

 

[almanac3000]

I don't think using headless browser reduces bandwidth unless you block images etc from being loaded but that does not require headless.

That makes sense. Do you think you can stop the video itself from being streamed and taking bandwidth, but still simulate the view?

Otherwise, the only other two options I see are:
1. Short watch time (obviously bad for algorithm, since it lowers retention rate)
2. Watch at 144p/240p - I have a feeling that an influx of views watching at the lowest quality will set off a red flag

 

[captchakiller]

That makes sense. Do you think you can stop the video itself from being streamed and taking bandwidth, but still simulate the view?

Otherwise, the only other two options I see are:
1. Short watch time (obviously bad for algorithm, since it lowers retention rate)
2. Watch at 144p/240p - I have a feeling that an influx of views watching at the lowest quality will set off a red flag

I don't think this is possible without it being detected by the algorithm, you might need to actively send requests to their server during stream if they check that. I do think it is possible to simulate it but might not be a good idea. I have no clue what they check for so just test things out ig to figure out what works.

 

[Proxy Cake]

A big feature of the algorithm is watch time of the video so there is no way to simulate that. The only way to save on bandwidth would be to lower the quality of the video and use am adblock plugin to block images etc

 

[ghost1906]

Headless browser easily detectable

 

[hsonj]

I'm currently developing a view bot for YouTube. It's obviously ideal to use residential proxies, but since most residential proxies charge by bandwidth, I have been looking to find some options that would reduce overhead (by reducing bandwidth).

There are what I want to discuss:
1. Would running a headless browser work to reduce bandwidth?
2. Is there a way to simulate the video being played, without actually streaming the contents of the video and taking bandwidth? Maybe through DOM?

It's best not to use a proxy, but to use a real phone