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Still doesn't block ads from the Facebook mobile app. Even if you install a root cert to MITM, some apps pin certs.
Of course, there are ways around this: you could make a copy of Facebook that doesn’t pin certificates.
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Still doesn't block ads from the Facebook mobile app. Even if you install a root cert to MITM, some apps pin certs.
Of course, there are ways around this: you could make a copy of Facebook that doesn’t pin certificates.
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#34I'm surprised this worked. I would have assumed he had adblock of some sort.
Mobile apps and some mobile browsers don't support ad block. While I have ublock on my laptop, i still get ads when I am on my phone which ironically is where these companies get most of their revenue these days.
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#36I'm surprised this worked. I would have assumed he had adblock of some sort.
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#37> My first thought was email. I can just email him! But that’s boring. > What about getting my article to the top of Hacker News? > The problem is, I didn’t think my article would be interesting enough to a large crowd to make it to the top of HN. Ha! He not only played Reddit's CEO with a Facebook ad… He also got his blog post into the HN top-ten (today) . Well done my friend, well done.
What's more: he concludes with "P.S. I am out again looking for new opportunities". So besides being excellent at putting his work in front of his target audience, he may go 2 for 2 on the job front.
None of them was actually ever offered one.
Make what you want of it.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17110763
[2] https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/590561521576587265
[3] https://eatwritewalk.com/2015/07/14/the-good-the-bad-and-the...
[4] https://twitter.com/chad_hurley/status/24129459657
[5] https://www.quora.com/Why-would-Feross-Aboukhadijeh-turn-dow...
[6] https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/24/youtube-instant-instant/
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#38> My first thought was email. I can just email him! But that’s boring. > What about getting my article to the top of Hacker News? > The problem is, I didn’t think my article would be interesting enough to a large crowd to make it to the top of HN. Ha! He not only played Reddit's CEO with a Facebook ad… He also got his blog post into the HN top-ten (today) . Well done my friend, well done.
Can't you buy upvotes? Bunch of accounts running with a script through Tor?
Yes, you can buy upvotes on Reddit. It's about 5 bucks for a couple hundred, often more than enough to get to the front page of mid sized subreddit.
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I didn't end up working for Reddit. I wanted the head of search position that was open, but they thought I didn't have enough experience. We talked about an IC role, but I would have had to move to the SF area (I live in DC) as they didn't allow remote employees. I couldn't justify uprooting my family (wife and 3 little kids) to move to a more expensive part of the country for less money than I can make in DC, even w…
How many years have you been at this? How do/did you learn the more architectural problem solving skills? I ask because I am pretty skilled technically, but only down in the weeds. Reading your blog post about the two techniques and how to combine them, I can understand, but I would not come up with this myself.