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I guess you mean this one: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/12/15786402/thai-clickfarm-b...

Would be easy to assume there are many such setups around the world.

Speaking of which, how are they controlling iPhones like this? I cannot imagine they are all jailbroken, so how do they achieve automation like this?

FB also has a huge setup like this https://code.facebook.com/posts/300815046928882/the-mobile-d... but it doesn't exactly say how it is done.

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Manpower is cheap in developing countries, why automate any of it?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Clc-CCAUYAABB76.jpg That particular image is from a TV show, but when people say "click farms", that's what to picture.

Imagine creating email addresses to make app store accounts to rate apps. For 10 hours, every day, for $1/hour.

$1/hour is more than a reasonable rate for this in any developing country.

Most blue collar jobs pay significantly lower.

I am asking how, not why/why not. In the video you can see that they did actually automate it.

I'm sure Google/Apple know about this and have the measures to detect it. It's as easy as see the location of the IP from which they installed or a lot of other parameters they track.

What surprises me is that they allow this since it's totally unfair to developers like me and my girlfriend that make a great effort in the time free of work to make those apps...

I am more interested in the part where they control the devices programatically rather than what they are doing with it.

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