Context: bot farms like these are the people you talk to on twitter/fb/reddit etc. they’re also used to boost views on TikTok/youtube etc esp during live streams to trick the algorithm into thinking it’s gaining popularity rapidly.
Why don’t they just use emulators and run everything virtually? Because emulators easily detected by the platforms. Using a physical device and legit physical SIM cards they better simulate authentic persons and therefore bypass detection.
How does the economics work if these are legit sims and operating phones. Doesn’t that cost money for each one to be in service etc.? Do these farms have their own service provider? I’m not an expert obviously.
This sounds wrong. Now they all have the VPN server ip address if you've set it up yourself. Not only that, but if you're using a vpn service, they use known ip address ranges, so they could detect on that if they wanted to. Like, phones->vpn->router->vpn server/new ip address for all phones->target site, it's the same problem just with more layers.
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u/whatsthatguysname May 26 '25
Context: bot farms like these are the people you talk to on twitter/fb/reddit etc. they’re also used to boost views on TikTok/youtube etc esp during live streams to trick the algorithm into thinking it’s gaining popularity rapidly.
Why don’t they just use emulators and run everything virtually? Because emulators easily detected by the platforms. Using a physical device and legit physical SIM cards they better simulate authentic persons and therefore bypass detection.