Fighting against viewbotting. Needing your help
I've been attacking viewbotting services for a few years now. It's not like Twitch or Amazon are going to lift a finger but even without their help I've still made some massive strides:
1- So far I've got Streamboo out of the TUCOWS servers and they've been relegated to the Chinese servers (NICENIC) after a brief temporary installment on the ADMINVPS servers.
2- I've previously chased Dogehype out of the NAMECHEAP servers operating in Europe (Iceland) but they've returned again and NameCheap is, once again, supplying scammers with websites.
3- I'm attempting to get the NEZHNA ones dealt with on the DYNADOT servers with some difficulty. Dynadot doesn't seem willing to sever ties with the scammers.
4- I got BooViewers shut down on the CUTTLY mirror services.
5- Similarly, I got BuyFollows shut down on the CUTTLY mirror services.
I'm really sorry about the massive bot slaughter of Jun/Jul last year. I was exploring ways to get Amazon's insurance "adjusted" to reflect that Amazon was doing nothing in regards to attacks on their assets. I believe my inquiries resulted in a massive purge of many bots proving that Amazon DID actually do something. I might have inadvertently killed a lot of genuine bots by making requests for Amazon's insurance details. The timing is too coincidental to ignore.
I'm keen to keep fighting but what I need is screenshots from the chats of the offending bots. I don't need to know where the bot was seen (protect your streamer).
If you see one, please screenshot it and send it to me. I'm targeting the hosts of the scammers. Once the server owner realises that they're actually assisting in the attacks against Amazon (with a net worth bigger than Brazil's entire GDP) they seem to drop the scammers as customers.
It's working. I'm getting results but I need more intel for the fight. You can tag @Gradgar on BlueSky (or just add them to my pinned post) or send them to my Reddit inbox of the same name.
There is an example image on my BlueSky pinned comments.
It's like I said, Twitch and Amazon aren't going to lift a finger in this. They don't care if you get scammed and they want the community to clean up their mess.
It's literally up to us because Twitch won't even implement a few simple lines of code that would prevent this from happening.