Methbot: a $3M-$5M/day video ad-tech fraud / Boing Boing - 0 views
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dr tech on 26 Dec 16""Methbot" that generated $3M-$5M by creating 6,000 fake websites to embed videos in, then generating convincing bots that that appeared to watch 300,000,000 videos/day -- running virtual instances of various browsers (mostly Chrome) on virtual machines running MacOS X, from a huge pool of IP addresses"