flyingguitar
TS Member
don't worry, I got you covered, they just need to do this:
although looking through the html and js, their website isn't all too truthful, the views are 100% fake, would 64 people really be viewing this now? but we can prove this by looking at the code:
this is the html, it probably won't make much sense, but the important things to notice are the variables (in the nasa-counting-viewing section):
data-min="10", this will be the minimum fake viewers
data-max="50", this is the maximum fake viewers of the initial random number
data-delay="15000", this is the refresh rate (every 15 seconds)
data-change="5", this is the number it can change each refresh (up to ±5 viewers)
data-id="1413031", this is the ID used for cookie storage
it is also important to notice the class is called nasa-count on the number (39)
turning to the js:
this isn't too nice to see, so stripping away most of the useless stuff we are left with this:
this essentially will generate a random number (1-5 because that count perameter) and add / subtract it from the previous valeu, if it dosn't exist then make a ransom number up. (for those who don't know math.random in js will generate a random number)
I also have seen a function called "nasa_fake_sold_promo", which never triggered when I was on the website and I didn't get too far into determening what it was as I only had part of the code, however it involves scrolling text I would guess (from the name) it would be like "___ has brought 100 of them" but it may also be old code as I couldn't find some of the elements it calls on
TLDR: the viewer count is fake, whilst I understand it is probably more common it IMO is quite a scummy thing to do, they could probably get similar sales with
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