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What I find interesting is that apparently YouTube can differentiate between fake and real views. But Facebook can not differentiate between fake and real likes. Difference, YouTube pays you, but you have to pay Facebook. Hmm...

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My understanding is that Google has made it pretty difficult to generate bogus Youtube accounts.

Bogus YouTube accounts aren't necessary to generate fake views.

Fun fact: 83% of visitors to YouTube are not signed into a google account.

Lots of those ads are based primarily the video content or other instantly detectable things like geography, language, etc.

Facebook reports its profile numbers to Wall Street and as such fake profiles make them lots of money. Google reports nothing about YouTube accounts and has no incentive to look the other way at fakes (and indeed with AdSense in the picture Google has an incentive to crack down).

Well poor zucky has to make his money in some way! Especially after the big dent in the budget due to WhatsApp .

For those not finding 'zucky' in the dictionary - this is the pet name of Zuckeberg.

Those not finding 'Zukeberg' in the dictionary - it's a misspelling of Zukerberg

For those not finding Zuckerberg in the dictionary, he founded Facebook.

HN must really be on the decline :(

Humour must really be on the decline :P

To the downvoters: ah well :)

To the contrary, reddit is doing better than ever, but it's not the only style of humour.

No humour here. Thank you.

I actually post in fear of the hellban. I have lost two 100+ karma accounts already and even had my IP blacklisted for a while for saying "Is this really an HN worthy post?" to some general world news on an emotive topic.

Well that's explicitly against the site guidelines, and I think the mods take it very seriously because we're already a highly critical demographic, without some checks and balances it would be very easy to devolve into a droning whingefest. If you feel the need to proclaim something un-HN-worthy you can choose to either flag it or ignore it (or rip it shreds on objective grounds).

is it really suitable grounds for hellbanning and IP banning someone who has made a 100+ karma contribution for easily ignored words.

humor+engineers = downvotes obviously

English is not my first language and I really looked 'zucky' in the dictionary.

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