Recent content by The Mentalist

Oh man those were some time ago. I got sold the IG network and Pinterest never quite got running, had a few hundred accounts setup but got hit with some bans. I think I got a bad batch of proxies.

Well it depends on your skill level with web development. Not sure if this makes sense to you, but you can right click on a webpage, then select "Inspect" or "Inspect Element". Once you've done that you should see your browser's developer tools. You want to go to the "Network" section, and check...

Review Dhia has been worked nearly 30 hours for me over the last month, and things have gone very well. I asked him to do some difficult tasks, the hardest being taking some technical articles on cryptocurrencies, extracting information from them, and putting them into a video to be published...

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It might be a good idea to just find a handful of really good affiliate marketers, people who manage lots of online ad spend, and give them a solid commission that entices them to promote your product. If they are really proven marketers you should be getting high quality subscriptions and you...

There's only one way to know, test it out yourself! I've been toying with Pinterest, so hopefully I'll be able to find out some new trends in their search algorithm.

I don't think many people are making money off of their browser extensions. The reality is you either have to charge upfront, or pray that kind souls give you enough $5 donations you make a respectable amount of money because they love the extension. The latter is extremely unlikely to happen.

How should you learn to code? All depends on what you want to learn. A lot of online courses on Udemy, Treehouse, etc, can help you launch an app quickly, but too many people stop there with learning. It is a lot harder to learn about basic computer science principles like algorithms, graphs...

Cookies, similar names, similar emails, etc. Are all the accounts registered using the exact same automation pattern? If each registration took exactly 5 seconds and the mouse moved the exact same way every time that would be a red flag. Might want to mix up everything as much as you can, for...

Theoretically, yes, but obviously you'd need to make sure you are cleaning up all of your other footprints. Each IP address doesn't necessarily represent 1 person, otherwise after one person created a Twitter account at a coffee shop all other Twitter accounts created there would be banned, right?

Well let's start with what we know machine learning can do. 1. Identify unintuitive patterns in large data sets. 2. Use large data sets and patterns to provide insight and model data. That basically sums up machine learning in a nutshell, a lot of ML is just advanced statistics, not voodoo...

My guess is that Selenium leaves a distinguishable footprint. Also as mentioned before, recaptcha is something that is probably looking at cursor speed and location, typing pace, etc. People are overly freaking out about WebRTC. I don't claim to be a networking expert but it really is just...

This isn't terribly hard. The problem, as anyone who has done lots of web scraping knows, is finding the patterns to consistently and accurately extract data from pages. To illustrate, if I am comparing names of a product... A simple system will get text inside of this div and compare to the...

I'm still getting feedback and requirements. It is hard to get people who are making money with FB ads to talk, even if I'm not asking intrusive questions.