Is anyone here doing or tried this? Multiple iphones and proxies and posting for money?
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curious about it as well. just good to understand how people make money in different areas.
True seems like a viable venture goven the setup and in theory should work but too much gurus promoting it is making me doubt it
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Google has more compute power than 1 million iphones to stop spam, so yes, your right to notice something is off. If you have a company that is going to pay you for Action A. Why you push your luck with fake Action Z? They can't make money with that. They need Action A. Its their model, and their pay you if you do it correctly. Sadly many peoples journey end here, as they try to black hat their way past super knowledgeable staff, departments, ai, and compute power.
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I've been around phone farms a bit, and the short version is: the concept works, the maths usually doesn't.
Panther28's point is basically the core of it. The platforms don't just look at the device or the IP anymore - they score hundreds of signals: device fingerprints, touch behaviour, how accounts cluster together, posting cadence. Ten iPhones on the same setup posting the same niche in lockstep is one of the easiest patterns to catch, proxies or not.
The part the guru videos skip is the operating cost. Real devices burn through accounts, so you're constantly warming replacements, swapping SIMs, paying for decent mobile proxies (cheap datacenter ones get burned almost immediately for this kind of use), and nursing the phones themselves - batteries swell, USB hubs fail, phones update overnight and break your scripts. The people I've seen make it work treat it like a hardware maintenance business first and a content business second.
And orobo's right about the screenshots too. Massive view counts usually come from one outlier account, not the average across a whole farm, and views alone don't tell you what actually turned into money.
If you're genuinely curious, the only honest way in is small: two or three phones, one niche, post manually-ish for a month, and track revenue per device per month against the actual costs. If that number isn't positive, scaling to twenty phones just scales the loss. The people selling the dream are almost always making their money from selling the setup, not from running it.
Panther28's point is basically the core of it. The platforms don't just look at the device or the IP anymore - they score hundreds of signals: device fingerprints, touch behaviour, how accounts cluster together, posting cadence. Ten iPhones on the same setup posting the same niche in lockstep is one of the easiest patterns to catch, proxies or not.
The part the guru videos skip is the operating cost. Real devices burn through accounts, so you're constantly warming replacements, swapping SIMs, paying for decent mobile proxies (cheap datacenter ones get burned almost immediately for this kind of use), and nursing the phones themselves - batteries swell, USB hubs fail, phones update overnight and break your scripts. The people I've seen make it work treat it like a hardware maintenance business first and a content business second.
And orobo's right about the screenshots too. Massive view counts usually come from one outlier account, not the average across a whole farm, and views alone don't tell you what actually turned into money.
If you're genuinely curious, the only honest way in is small: two or three phones, one niche, post manually-ish for a month, and track revenue per device per month against the actual costs. If that number isn't positive, scaling to twenty phones just scales the loss. The people selling the dream are almost always making their money from selling the setup, not from running it.
But by that logic not a single bussines model works because gurus promote roblox dev and youtube faceless etc and my cousin has made alott from those so? Or idk dude tbh im scared o csnt ever make money bc gurus promote everything therefore everything is a scam ? Is 9-5 the way only? I dont think so?
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So what do u recommend
How much can i make? I know the 4B is likely bullshit im just scared that every guru promoted every bussines to earth so therefore all bussines are shit
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It's not as easy as the video made it look. I think they're selling their services or something, otherwise there's no point in boasting about a phone farm. If someone is making money, they generally don't post about what's working for them as reels.
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Feel free to prove me wrong!
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You can see there are examples of people with legit business processes rather than flash in the pan brags.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/j...oid-app-empire.1272635/page-103#post-21283135
Go ask @nakamura how easy it was to setup and get to his operation process. Ask him if he'd prefer to do a basic 9-5 doing the same thing and get paid the same?
he would bite your hand of i bet! (little inside joke @nakamura bud )Seriously take a look at that dude, he started in 2020, and way before everyone thought they were a space x vibe coder! lol
I dont think he would rather be a slave than freeYou can see there are examples of people with legit business processes rather than flash in the pan brags.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/journey-building-an-ios-android-app-empire.1272635/page-103#post-21283135
Go ask @nakamura how easy it was to setup and get to his operation process. Ask him if he'd prefer to do a basic 9-5 doing the same thing and get paid the same?
Seriously take a look at that dude, he started in 2020, and way before everyone thought they were a space x vibe coder! lol
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we're all slaves to google and our ISP bro lol
I would rather be a slave at home and in a screen than a slave in the office with a boss and co workers
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Where did I say nothing works online? But these gurus make money by targeting gullible people like you. So, it's not the same as making money online.