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I think this would be easily detectable anyway as whatever IP’s they are using would be viewing videos that basically no one ever watches.

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The paper says they made 1.8e10 attempts to produce 1e4 videos. TFA says they now have 2.5e4 videos, so they’ve made >4e10 attempts so far. No way in hell you can scrape YouTube like that without buying access to a big proxy IP pool (e.g. Luminati).

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