As William James Tychonievich notes; these four countries (but, for me, especially Vietnam) have been the sources of millions of fake "page views" on at least three Blogger blogs.
I could speculate; but does any reader have any solid insight into why these places, and what's going-on?
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Three main reasons, I guess:
1. Cheap hosting;
2. Many infected/unprotected devices;
3. Growing incentives to scrape websites to train "AI" models.
The real origin is probably somewhere else, they could be using these countries to mask their identities.
Use Google Analytics to check stats, it seems that it has some additional filters against bots.
P.S. I'm from Brazil and I assume you have at least a few (maybe hundreds) real readers here.
Hello. Places like Vietnam are known for click farms (both automated and using people).
Usually this is done to increase monetization for blog sites or skew popularity numbers for political sites, etc
Why your sites are picked I have no idea (unless you’re secretly getting fat checks from google) ;)
I forgot to add, places like Vietnam are used to scrape content for AI, used to test if sites can detect intrusion (non monetized sites are great for this since they are low risk).
Also, if the sites have controversial topics, the high traffic can be used to either amplify or suppress a site’s visibility (suppress by drowning out real interaction — which doesn’t seem to be a thing here)
Final data point - Vietnam is a cheap place to have these farms.
I can guess the kind of thing that's going on - I just wondered if there was anything more specific - especially about Vietnam.
My understanding is that "AI" requires massive amounts of electrickery, which rules out many Western nations - who are actively destroying power generation under the fake rationale of "sustainability".
Has Vietnam maybe upgraded its power supply recently?
Also, given the familiar affinity between East Asians and computers, I suppose it's Brazil that is the outlier here.
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