How bad is YouTube's Zero Day "movie" upload spam problem? Really bad.
Referenced post and image: https://plus.google.com/+LaurenWeinstein/posts/NCUFmV9z3Eg It's vast in its scope, and it's a terribly tough nut to crack. To see for yourself, go to YouTube and use YT search to look for pretty much any relatively popular movie in the last half century or more. It needn't be a blockbuster. Now, use the filter control to limit the search to Today (as in referenced image). What you'll likely find will be much as I pulled up a few minutes ago for Forbidden Planet. Upload after upload after upload -- all of them fake. Yep, they're all just come-ons that display a slide asking you to click-through to some disreputable site you don't want to touch with a 10 foot pole. And this is only a partial list. And this is just for today. Often they were uploaded within the last hour. And this same pattern appears for a staggeringly vast array of film titles. YouTube nabs some of these relatively quickly. Others persist for weeks, months, or longer. But at the rate they're being piled in, there are always a bunch present at the top of YT search results (the only items higher in this example are paid ads), ready to divert YT users down into the rathole of spam diversion. The crooks are everywhere. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
