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Started by Tobi Adeyemi (@tobi_writes) ·

YouTube engineers once worried about 'the Inversion'

Apparently for a while around 2013, so much of YouTube's traffic was bots that employees worried the fraud detection would flip and start treating bot traffic as normal and human traffic as suspicious. They called that hypothetical 'the Inversion.'

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How I got here

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How much of the internet is bots?
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Internet bot

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  1. “youtube inversion fake traffic bots” (google.com)
  2. How Much of the Internet Is Fake? (nymag.com)

    max read, 2018. the inversion part is what everyone quotes

  3. Click fraud (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. Click farm (en.wikipedia.org)
  5. Internet bot (en.wikipedia.org)

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