New Way to Spam YouTube? (using the comment moderator feature)

Nonilol · Dec 31, 2017

Hi BHW!

I'm not sure if this is of any significance, but I encountered spam today which I had not seen before.

Here's how it works:

- Scrape a good amount of active Youtuber users (you need the channel URLs)
- Get a t.co shortened link for your the URL you want to promote"
- Create a new Brand account / Channel called "Win a free Iphone 8 here: t.co/abc" (make sure you got the link in there!)
- Add all of the scraped users as channel moderator. Either manually (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7023301?hl=en) or using automation software, iMacro might work

All users that you add as a moderator will receive an email like the one below. The beauty is, that Google makes the URL from your channel name clickable

I have not tried this myself on a large scale, maybe it doesn't work at all, I just figured I'd share it here so it maybe helps someone.
If this has been around for a while, I'm sorry, I'm not really into spamming lately.

Have a good start into 2018!

blackbrut · Dec 31, 2017

If there is a way to do automate that and it's really under spam radar, that's a great method!

DigitalShark · Dec 31, 2017

This might be another good method. Thank you for sharing

Nonilol · Dec 31, 2017

blackbrut said:
If there is a way to do automate that and it's really under spam radar, that's a great method!

I guess it depends on how big you wanna go. As I said, I haven't really tried this myself.
If it's just for your browser, I guess iMacro or similar extensions might work.
If that's not enough: Multiple channels, multiple proxies and eg. python + selenium to automate (gotta have some programming skills for that tho)

Paranoid Android · Dec 31, 2017

Now that you have shared it in public, I won't be surprised if it gets patched in 2 days

Nonilol · Dec 31, 2017

Paranoid Android said:
Now that you have shared it in public, I won't be surprised if it gets patched in 2 days

For sure, but as someone is already using this method, I suppose it's reported to YT already anyways, so I wanted to give you guys the chance to milk it really quick

Deleted member 969102 · Dec 31, 2017

Goldmine!

Do you have an idea of how many users can be imported at once?

Deleted member 719276 · Dec 31, 2017

Lmao @Nonilol I thought I was the only one who got hit by this

I received the exact same email few hours ago lmao. Someone is banking hard! RIP RIP method.

William702 · Dec 31, 2017

Paranoid Android said:
Now that you have shared it in public, I won't be surprised if it gets patched in 2 days

That's just the paranoia talking

alienbaba · Dec 31, 2017

Lol people are really innovative!

Deleted member 923340 · Dec 31, 2017

this is golden. the possibilities are endless.

moonshine7000 · Dec 31, 2017

William702 said:
That's just the paranoia talking

Yep that is what @Highschooled did

Nonilol · Dec 31, 2017

Neon said:
Lmao @Nonilol I thought I was the only one who got hit by this I received the exact same email few hours ago lmao. Someone is banking hard! RIP RIP method.

↑ The fuck is this, I did not write this comment?!

Edit: Ah... nvm. It's just you. I got confused between Nonilol and Neon again

Mr Cracker · Dec 31, 2017

I don't really see how YouTube can patch this, I mean not without preventing moderators to be assigned to channels.

Deleted member 923340 · Dec 31, 2017

Mr Cracker said:
I don't really see how YouTube can patch this, I mean not without preventing moderators to be assigned to channels.

limiting the number of moderators, u can set for a channel.

Nonilol · Dec 31, 2017

Mr Cracker said:
I don't really see how YouTube can patch this, I mean not without preventing moderators to be assigned to channels.

By not making URLs in channel names clickable or by adding limit for how many channels can be added as moderator in a period of time

I was too late, Deleted member 923340 pretty much said it

DigitalShark · Dec 31, 2017

Mr Cracker said:
I don't really see how YouTube can patch this, I mean not without preventing moderators to be assigned to channels.

Limits? Captcha? A lot of ways.
Hahaha, 3 same posts in the same second.

Deleted member 719276 · Dec 31, 2017

Nonilol said:
By not making URLs in channel names clickable or by adding limit for how many channels can be added as moderator in a period of time
I was too late, Deleted member 923340 pretty much said it

I was too late, not you. I'm @Nonilol

uncutu · Dec 31, 2017

nice find & nice share
but like others said, expect this to be patched real soon now that the worlds biggest IM forum seen it
tomorrow 10 other IM forums will see it
so hit it hard & fast while you can
or twist it, see what other websites function in a similar way and apply the same blueprint.

Mr Cracker · Dec 31, 2017

Deleted member 923340 said:
limiting the number of moderators, u can set for a channel.

Nonilol said:
By not making URLs in channel names clickable or by adding limit for how many channels can be added as moderator in a period of time
I was too late, Deleted member 923340 pretty much said it

No, I know its possible that they can patch it, but I meant unless there's a REALLY big issue such as hundreds of thousands abusing this, I doubt they will do much.

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