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This makes automated posting difficult, but not sock-puppeting. When people say "bots", they probably don't mean automated posting, they mean creating lots of accounts to swarm other users with. You don't need much automation to do this; a device farm of old phones and some ability to remote-control each one would be enough to maintain hundreds to thousands of sock-puppets.


Interesting, I wonder if VMs would also work for this purpose?


$1 per hour manual labour would be cheaper more effective than updating scripts against a determined adversary.


Android in a VM.




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