Affiliates flock to scam gambling machine

wouldnt it be nice if we techies could come up collectively with a protocol that ran a decentralized set of model virtual machines MVMs as i call it that would track incoming payments to a website and outgoing money from a website and determine a score as to how scammy a given website was and like DNS records, this score would be taken into account to mark those scammy websites all over the world whose DNS records would be filtered out so that genuine users never run into them

Hope that part of the collective action, is coming up with very robust hosting.

It’s likely that these MVMs would become a fairly significant target.

It would be very simple to build such a thing if you could analyze everyone's payments. With total surveillance, you can have total safety! Why would you want privacy when you could have safety instead?

The ironic part is that the government already tracks all payments everywhere in realtime and ingests them into a huge database. They could provide such a threat intelligence feed but that would tip their hand and remind the public that they have precisely zero financial privacy even if they're not suspected of a crime.

I suspect there is some /sarcasm in the parent post, the “techies” have already shipped crypto public ledgers which these scam sites use to steal their victim’s funds. Can it be sufficiently de-anonymised to do this analysis?

have you just described web3 / blockchain ...