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Weird type of spam I discovered (vids2025) (feddit.nl)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(I'm aware that I'm giving this spam more attention by posting this, but I really wanted to share this weird behaviour.)

There are accounts whose sole purpose seems to be posting links to a certain blogspot blog. The posts of this blog only consist of YouTube videos, with very basic titles such as "Kangaroo Fight", "Growing Strawberries", etc.

Here are some example accounts I found via a web search (unfortunately the URLs of posts isn't taken into account when searching on lemmy):

I also found two other accounts that seem to be part of this, too, but they were already banned:

Another interesting discovery: Compare the two links for each of the accounts marked with (*). You will notice that the posts on moist.catsweat.com link to YouTube, but when viewing the posts from lemmy.world those same posts link to the blogspot. Why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i noticed the spam accounts but appreciated the content, which is also usually in appropriate communities... so i assisted them by updating the links directly to the intended video.

i would generally not approve of these kinds of edits if they werent bots spamvertizing a blog site

link edits fail to propagate from mbin to lemmy... not sure why. thats why the different urls

e. looks like a bug that might be fixed in the next mbin release 1.8.1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for clarifying!