weird insta free followers apps. how do they work, dangerous?

[wubbelflup]

i was looking at these apps but they're probably scam and want you to login with your acc?
which isn't a good idea obviously. i don't get why google doesn't remove them..

i've also seen people follow a huge amount of accounts and after a while they unfollow in the hope you follow them. and the same with likes
is that what these things do?

i won't use them. i think it's scummy. just curious.

[The Cellular Level™]

Yes

[HE❌EN]

I've never understood this "#like4follow" BS or anything like that. If you really need/depend on those apps and free followers instead of gaining them through quality content, you probably don't deserve followers at all.

I made a mistake once and was featured on a "Scene Gurls" whatever instagram account and now my account is worthless because of all those unimportand and uninteresting people following me.

[Blargo]

引用自 ⛧heXen⛧：

I've never understood this "#like4follow" BS or anything like that. If you really need/depend on those apps and free followers instead of gaining them through quality content, you probably don't deserve followers at all.

I made a mistake once and was featured on a "Scene Gurls" whatever instagram account and now my account is worthless because of all those unimportand and uninteresting people following me.

I wonder if there is any kind of legal action you can take against that account for doing that without your permission.

[wubbelflup]

引用自 Dxpress：

引用自 ⛧heXen⛧：

I've never understood this "#like4follow" BS or anything like that. If you really need/depend on those apps and free followers instead of gaining them through quality content, you probably don't deserve followers at all.

I made a mistake once and was featured on a "Scene Gurls" whatever instagram account and now my account is worthless because of all those unimportand and uninteresting people following me.

I wonder if there is any kind of legal action you can take against that account for doing that without your permission.

well fake followers are bots so that's not legal in Instagram. not on a national lvl though.

引用自 Ｋ░ｉ░ｎ░ｇ 　（若：

Yes

why my dear. you can't just say yas. tututut bad boi.

[TVMAN]

引用自 epicpotato：

i was looking at these apps but they're probably scam and want you to login with your acc?
which isn't a good idea obviously.

Yes, obviously.

i don't get why google doesn't remove them..

Ever tried playing a game of Whack-A-Mole? Same thing. Remove one, two take its place.

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

youtube just banned users using insta follower apps.

[wubbelflup]

引用自 chiefputsi✖✖✖ 上 没什么 老挝：

youtube just banned users using insta follower apps.

wut, youtube? how? people who filmed it?
or you mean followers for youtube?

[Azza ☠]

I don't know what one you are talking about, so will just snoop the first one I come across out of curiousity.

Remote snooping...

SHA256: 0fdfb5f74fcf82fdb00d4741d0862c64f5b96f5c4db74c9aebcfa0a7511beb50
File type: APK
Package name: com.mmobiledev.likex.turbofollowers.ig.android.web
Minimum system version: Android 4.0.3, 4.0.4

Possible dangerous behaviour...
Behaviour: Check root access
Detail info: /system/bin/su

Possible dangerous functions...
android/app/NotificationManager;->notify : Send notification
java/net/HttpURLConnection;->connect : Connect to URL
Camera;->open : Open camera
HttpClient;->execute : Query for a remote server
TelephonyManager;->getDeviceId : Get info like IMEI, phone number or OS version
getRuntime : Get runtime environment
java/lang/Runtime;->exec : Execute system command
java/net/URL;->openConnection : Connect to URL

Possible dangerous services attached...
u'com.enhance.gameservice.IGameTuningService' : A game optimizating service
u'com.google.android.gms.ads.identifier.service.START' : Google advertising service

Possible privacy issues...
Behaviour: Get connected WIFI or Mobile Data

Malware: Not Detected

Could work in the fact they just follow each other, but will probably also just use/abuse your account and privacy for their own purpose (which could be anything). There seems no reason, but this one also tends to attempt to access root level and even the camera. Why? I haven't actually downloaded or run it to fully check, but that should give you at least some heads up.

[Florida Man]

Buying subs isn't anything new. There's been foreign companies with thousands of fake accounts that will follow, upvote, comment on and retweet your stuff for a price.

Big companies use it too to promote their movies and products (and promote controversy)

[someone]

引用自 epicpotato：

i won't use them.just curious.

>uses instagram
>"oh i need some followers please i wanna feel famous and important and special"
>googles "free instagram followers 100% free no virus"
>asks on off topic "hey is this a scam? i totally dont wanna try to use this just curious"

[AustrAlien2010]

People buy followers and likes. This is already known.
It's not dangerous. It's confusing.

Receiving payment for it, could be hurtful or damaging in some indirect way. Because they are taking advantage of a flawed system, and the owners may not like that. But they could be powerless to do anything against it.

[wubbelflup]

引用自 ☭ommunism101：

引用自 epicpotato：

i won't use them.just curious.

>uses instagram
>"oh i need some followers please i wanna feel famous and important and special"
>googles "free instagram followers 100% free no virus"
>asks on off topic "hey is this a scam? i totally dont wanna try to use this just curious"

lol, i get advertisement for them, and i searched bestnine and these things come up lol.

but yeah i understand your suspicion.

[WhiteFoxy]

I have no knowledge on modern apps to "earn" followers, but I can tell you the following, in a non-technical way that you could understand:

- Back in the day, YouTube also had apps to boost channel and video views. These apps basically established a connection to one or multiple proxy servers to boost your views. Essentially, it was like hitting F5 to refresh the pages, except these apps did it with one or multiple connections (could be your "real" connection, or other connections, proxy connections). No people were involved in the process.

- There are sites to boost your Facebook likes, for your business page or your personal page. These sites can be community-based or bot-based. Community-based sites have real (and fake) users who like your posts for a reward. Bot-based sites are sites that create fake accounts that instantly like your posts or page as soon as you "buy" their likes. Facebook removes these fake likes with time, when the fake accounts are detected and disabled.

- You should avoid these apps and sites AND you should also avoid legitimate ways to get "paid" likes too. Both legitimate and illegitimate ways attract bots and fake accounts. In my case, the Facebook Advertising tools gave me illegitimate likes from people that clearly don't exist. Facebook removed these likes from my pages and gave me an advertising coupon, only to get more fake followers.

Fake followers are not the answer to being popular on the Internet. If you want to be popular, you must do something cool and be something cool. The difference between paid followers or fake followers and real followers, is that real followers follow you and fake ones don't.

[The Cellular Level™]

引用自 epicpotato：

引用自 Dxpress：

I wonder if there is any kind of legal action you can take against that account for doing that without your permission.

well fake followers are bots so that's not legal in Instagram. not on a national lvl though.

引用自 Ｋ░ｉ░ｎ░ｇ 　（若：

Yes

why my dear. you can't just say yas. tututut bad boi.

But they are bad

[HE❌EN]

引用自 Dxpress：

引用自 ⛧heXen⛧：

I've never understood this "#like4follow" BS or anything like that. If you really need/depend on those apps and free followers instead of gaining them through quality content, you probably don't deserve followers at all.

I made a mistake once and was featured on a "Scene Gurls" whatever instagram account and now my account is worthless because of all those unimportand and uninteresting people following me.

I wonder if there is any kind of legal action you can take against that account for doing that without your permission.

I don't think so ... it's like a free real estate. I even made my account private but that changed nothing since now I get hundreds of hundreds notifications from people who want permission to follow me. Might as well start another account.