A certain shade of Scoble - G+ hack

Friend adding bot/crawler:

EDIT: IT appears that google has throttled the bot in both circles/second possible and the amount of friends you can add per window. *APPLAUSE*

Of course it can still be worked around. But its significantly harder then it was last week.

Thankyou for all your support by sharing this video.

Much love.
Galthralla..

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Google +
• Google+
• Google
• G+
• Hack
• G+hack
• Hacking friends
• Circle hack
• Hackfriends
• Hack circle

[snake1984]

how useless is that? i bet im faster by adding 500 people via drag and drop to a circle. magic word: select all.

[Galthralla]

@snake1984 I dont know if your being a dumb troll deliberately, but you cant add people to your lists by dragging them to a circle group, you need to add them first before you can "select all"...

Feel free to do a video response of you dragging people not already linked to your g+account to a circle using your method because it cant be done.

[htownholdem]

So how do you get this bot?

[Galthralla]

@htownholdem You cant.

[xitsej]

This bot effectively does nothing because of the way google + works. Just because you put me in your circle doesnt mean I have you in one of mine. And you only see stuff from people you put in your circles. Thats the brilliant thing about the way Google+ works

[KidChemic]

@Galthralla what are you talking about?!?!? You CAN drag and drop people to your circle... You owe me $1,000 if I make a video

[H3x0S1]

This is a total fail. Doesn't use web requests, not multithreaded...FAIL.

[killroy42]

@xitsej You totally missed the point. The point is that many people simply automatically add people to circles who added them. So he then removes everybody the next day and rinses and repeats. Perhaps out of every 5000 he might only get 50-100 followers, but he can just repeat the process.

[bertrandhe]

This video is a fake. Just a good fake. Good job !

[yurikomuro]

this video and bot fails. this is what sphagetti coders will do, write garbage. btw, you can achieve far faster rates by simply parsing the page and sending POST requests instead of clicking everything.

[fat1starr]

so you put all the programmers onto this, doesn't look that hard to code but good work ntl. (none the less)

[Cybergabi]

Good on you to find this vulnerability and to address it, instead of making money with it. Keep up the good work.