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Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 7 July, 2023 - 19:51 · 1 minute
Enlarge / There could soon be much more of this on Reddit. (credit: Getty )
The Reddit community is still reckoning with the consequences of the platform's API price hike. The changes have led to the shuttering of numerous third-party Reddit apps and have pushed several important communities, like the Ask Me Anything ( AMAs ) organizers, to reduce or end their presence on the site.
The latest group to announce its departure is BotDefense. BotDefense, which helps removes rogue submission and comment bots from Reddit and which is maintained by volunteer moderators, is said to help moderate 3,650 subreddits. BotDefense's creator told Ars Technica that the team is now quitting over Reddit's "antagonistic actions" toward moderators and developers, with concerning implications for spam moderation on some large subreddits like r/space.
BotDefense started in 2019 as a volunteer project and has been run by volunteer mods, known as "dequeued" and "andabrownn" on Reddit. Since then, it claims to have populated its ban list with 144,926 accounts, and it helps moderates subreddits with huge followings, like r/gaming (37.4 million members), /r/aww (34.2 million), r/music (32.4 million), r/Jokes (26.2 million), r/space (23.5 million), and /r/LifeProTips (22.2 million). Dequeued told Ars that other large subreddits BotDefense helps moderates include /r/food, /r/EarthPorn, /r/DIY, and /r/mildlyinteresting.
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Musk stiffing Google could unleash yet more abuse on Twitter, report says
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 12 June, 2023 - 17:03
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In what might be another blow to the stability of Twitter's trust and safety efforts, the company has allegedly stopped paying for Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS), which host tools that support the platform's safety measures, Platformer reported this weekend.
According to Platformer, Twitter relies on Google Cloud to host services "related to fighting spam, removing child sexual abuse material, and protecting accounts, among other things." That contract is up for renewal at the end of this month after being negotiated and signed prior to Elon Musk's takeover. Since "at least" March, Twitter has been pushing to renegotiate the contract ahead of renewal—unsurprisingly seeking to lower costs, Platformer reported.
But now it's unclear if the companies will find agreeable new terms on time or if Musk already intends to cancel the contract. Platformer reported that Twitter is rushing to transition services off the Google Cloud Platform and seemingly plans to drop the contract amid failed negotiations.
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news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 22 February, 2023 - 17:01
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Les boîtes mail Outlook se remplissent de spams à cause d’une panne de filtre
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RNC loses complaint claiming Gmail spam filter is biased against Republicans
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 17 January, 2023 - 18:16
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The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has rejected a Republican National Committee (RNC) complaint claiming that Google violated US law by using Gmail's spam filter on Republican campaign emails. Republicans had claimed Gmail's spam filtering amounted to "illegal in-kind contributions made by Google to Biden For President and other Democrat candidates."
But an FEC decision last week, which Google provided to Ars today, said the commission found "no reason to believe" that Google made prohibited in-kind corporate contributions. The FEC, an independent agency of the US government, also found no evidence that the Biden for President campaign committee knowingly accepted illegal in-kind contributions in the form of spam filtering preference.
The FEC told Google in a letter that it has "closed its file in this matter" and that documents related to the case will be placed on the public record within 30 days.
Spammers Exploit IMDb to Promote Fishy Movie Piracy Sites
news.movim.eu / TorrentFreak · Sunday, 8 January, 2023 - 16:56 · 2 minutes
The Internet Movie Database (
IMDb
) is one of the oldest online repositories to cement its place in Internet history.
The service actually predates the world wide web and was initially launched as the Usenet group “rec.arts.movies”. Three years later, it moved to the web in the form of the now widely known IMDb.com.
Ever since, the site has served multiple generations of video fanatics. Today, it is owned by Amazon and despite the many alternatives that currently exist, millions of people continue to use it regularly.
More recently, the site has garnered the attention of a subgroup of Internet users that have also existed for decades: spammers. Some are currently exploiting IMDb’s list feature to generate advertisements for the latest pirated movies and TV shows.
A list posted by one spammer is shown below, but there are many more like it, and new ones continue to show up all the time.
As is often the case, these spammers are not really interested in providing people with access to pirated films. Instead, they promote scammy sites that lure wannabe pirates into signing up for dodgy sites. These services promise the moon but often require credit card details for a free trial.
It’s not hard to imagine why leaving credit card details and personal information with these sites isn’t the best idea. For scammers, on the other hand, such information can be quite profitable.
The examples above all use IMDb’s lists feature, which allows users to provide overviews of their favorite content. As external links can be added as well, they can be used to advertise pretty much anything, spam and scams included.
IMDb is not alone; many other sites are plagued by this type of abuse. LinkedIn, for example, has been popular among scammers recently and the same is true for various official European Union websites, which have been trying to tackle the issue following our report a few weeks ago.
While spammers are typically not very picky, IMDb is actually an ideal target. This type of scheme relies largely on traffic from search engines and results from a movie-related website tend to rank well.
Add in the fact that ‘real’ pirate sites are actively removed and downranked by search engines such as Google, and it’s not hard to see why the Internet Movie Database is overloaded with dodgy links.
We reached out to IMDb for a comment on our findings, but the company didn’t immediately reply. If this continues, however, it may have to put some restrictions on outgoing links.
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