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kwikbreaks
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I bought a watering lance off ebay. It's faulty with a split washer causing a huge leak so as part of the returns evidence I put up a very short video. Before I'd added it and a photo to the ebay return I get an email from youtube saying there is a new comment...
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It's spam...0
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Please don't promote spam by repeating it here.0
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But do buy some Bitcoins to decrypt your files.0
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kwikbreaks wrote: »I bought a watering lance off ebay. It's faulty with a split washer causing a huge leak so as part of the returns evidence I put up a very short video. Before I'd added it and a photo to the ebay return I get an email from youtube saying there is a new comment...
It appears that YouTube's API allows punters to search for videos published between specific points in time.
I guess spammers constantly scan for newly published videos to add their ad comments to.
It would be an entirely automated process. :rotfl:0 -
It would be an entirely automated process.0
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