Major Issue With YPTWallet - Bots Causing False Payments

[The-Do-It-Yourself-World]

People are writing bots to hit us with fake views. The bot hits us for a fraction of a second per video, generating a view of "0" time but the channel owner is being paid for this view in full and its wiping us out.

I have attached a screenshot showing just one page out of over 10,000 views generated today. I have to pay for every single view.

Notice the same IP addresses, "null" user id and "0" seconds watched. Yet this generates a payment to the channel owner.

Notice especially the first 4 and the last 5 entries in the screenshot. Sometimes multiple views are generated in the same second, proving this is a bot.

[The-Do-It-Yourself-World]

I know this should be a simple fix in the code to set payment to only count based on % of a video viewed instead of full payment per click.

[DanielnetoDotCom]

what table is that?

[The-Do-It-Yourself-World]

That is the video statistics table in the database. This issue has been going on since the wallet was written but until now a simple warning stopped people. Now its out of control and costing me.

[akhilleusuggo]

First , disable the auto-play , without auto-play will not generate +1 view .

on /install directory there's removeViewsStatisticsErrors.php but I'm not sure if that's gonna work for you .

[DanielnetoDotCom]

If you inspect the access log using the IPs on the table you should be able to see where they come from and how they are doing it.