Yes - autosurf traffic is worthless as far as sales are concerned, because virtually everyone "surfing" is doing as you do - multiple instances, running while asleep or watching TV etc. No eyeballs on your page. Worse, it is extremely untargeted traffic.
As for using it to boost YT views - there are some things to keep in mind:
1. YT tracks how long people view a vid. If your views are only 10 seconds (and your vid is more than 10 seconds long) it will count against the vid.
2. YT tracks how many viewers favorite, comment, rate etc. If your ratios are very low, your vid gets a low "quality score" (they don't publish this, but if you do some testing you will find that your vid won't even make the YT search with "lots of views" but no other user feedback).
I tested Autosurf traffic to a YT vid about 2 years ago. These were the ripoff "paid" autosurfs (where you "invest" and are supposed to get a return - they were ponzi schemes and everyone gets ripped of f in the end). They were also BIG autosurfs, with over 10,000 members each (so lots of "unique" surfers).
I threw 500 views from each of 2 autosurfs at a YT vid that already had about 1000 views. The views came over 2 days. The viewcounter went up a total of 40 views, and I cannot know if those were from the autosurf traffic or from other traffic to the vid.
I had sent other traffic from these two autosurfs to one of my pages, and indeed the hit counters went up, the analytics showed lots of different IP addresses etc. So, the worthless traffic WAS delivered.
So - 1000 views from autosurfs, YT maybe (not clear) credits the vid with about 40 views. When I viewed the vid, the counter went up. So - even back then YT knew about this junk traffic and discounted it, even as far as the viewcounter was concerned. You can do your own tests, but I suspect that you won't be happy with the results either...
Just some thoughts.
And whatever you do - DON'T put money into an Autosurf/Paid to Surf scheme. All will be lost.
Best Regards, Georgie
