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TheRealJoelmatic / RemoveAdblockThing

The intrusive "Ad blocker are not allowed on YouTube" message is annoying. This open-source project aims to address this issue by providing a solution to bypass YouTube's ad blocker detection
http://joelmatic.com/
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TUTORIAL ON HOW TO STOP GHOST SPAMMING ISSUES SECTION #4024

Open aalsweity opened 5 days ago

aalsweity commented 5 days ago

Hi Joel,

I did some research on the issue of this "ghost" account spamming malicious stuff and it turns out that they are abusing an exploit in Google Analytics to send these Spam stuff.

Check out this Github repository about how to stop this and let me know if this might help you.

https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/Stop.Google.Analytics.Ghost.Spam.HOWTO

kingkingburger commented 5 days ago

almost every issue is a spam 😥

Euqoram commented 5 days ago

ghost is the placeholder name for banned accounts, it's not a person. might be good to check out tho

GroggyOtter commented 3 days ago

ghost is the placeholder name for banned accounts, it's not a person. might be good to check out tho

This is correct.
Ghost is the default account that is applied to deleted accounts.
"Ghost" isn't who's posting those thing. An actual account, like "JohnFuckBoi2286", is creating the posts.
The account gets flagged as a spam account, gets deleted, and all that remains is "Ghost posted this message..."

If you're seeing a post by ghost, the account is already gone.

@OP - I find it interesting you did all this research but didn't manage to figure out Ghost isn't an actual account. :-/

aalsweity commented 2 days ago

ghost is the placeholder name for banned accounts, it's not a person. might be good to check out tho

This is correct. Ghost is the default account that is applied to deleted accounts. "Ghost" isn't who's posting those thing. An actual account, like "JohnFuckBoi2286", is creating the posts. The account gets flagged as a spam account, gets deleted, and all that remains is "Ghost posted this message..."

If you're seeing a post by ghost, the account is already gone.

@op - I find it interesting you did all this research but didn't manage to figure out Ghost isn't an actual account. :-/

I honestly didn't. I'm new to GitHub. Before you responded, I learned about a ghost account from GitHub support after reporting the issue of bot spamming the issues section.