I want to share some thoughts that I had recently about YouTube spam comments. We all know these early bots in the YouTube comment section, with those “misleading” profile pictures and obvious bot like comments. Those comments are often either random about any topic or copied from other users.

OK, why am I telling you that? Well, I think these bots are there to be recognized as bots. Their job is to be seen as a bot and be deleted and ignored. In that case everyone feels safe, thinking all bots are now deleted. But in reality there are more sophisticated bots under us. So the easy bots job is to get delete and basically mislead us, so we don’t think that any is left, because they are deleted.

What do you think? Sounds plausible, doesn’t it? Or do I have paranoia? :D

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      4 days ago

      To me the comments are one of the most interesting things on YouTube. Either on Gaming, Linux or in example on funny video content, with lot of funny comments. I actually use FreeTube client to watch videos anonymously, but go to Firefox and login to YouTube specifically to comment and interact with other users.