Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]
This may rub some folks raw and be pessimistic, but a half a century on this planet has taught me that any solution which relies on &quot;doing the right thing&quot; (ethics) but does not have any rules, laws or other repercussion for abusing it, then (some entity - person or company) will use your altruistic belief to their own gain, ethics be damned.<p>Just Google &quot;buy reddit upvotes&quot; and the internet is full of folks who will sell you a million Likes for cheap - in my mind, it&#x27;s just a modern digital con (confidence game) - some of y&#x27;all may remember having created self-signed OpenSSL certs with the Snake Oil, Ltd company named in it. :) Even Wikipedia has a page for &quot;there&#x27;s a sucker born every minute&quot; it&#x27;s so institutionalized.