It sounds like a joke, or a bad episode of Black Mirror.

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    8 days ago

    So there are 2 disputed (both denied inflating their numbers) examples in 19 years? Spotify invested millions into detecting fake listens as they have to pay out for them. And sure it might happen on small scale, but I haven’t seen any verifiable information on it happening on a large scale. The cost of that would be enourmous as you need residential IPs to even try which are in limited supply.

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      8 days ago

      So there are 2 disputed (both denied inflating their numbers) examples in 19 years?

      If I said California had two NFL teams, would you take that to mean there’s only two teams in the NFL?

      Because that’s what you’re doing by acting like the only mentioned examples are the examples.

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        8 days ago

        I haven’t heard of any other cases.

        I haven’t seen any verifiable information on it happening on a large scale.

        If you know of that being the case please educate me.