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LinkedIn is the weirdest product ever. Everybody is there, nobody is using it for anything. Except shady recruiters.
Lots of people use it. The feed aspect of it is useless. But in terms of a network it's great. I've found 2 out of my last 3 jobs there. Assume it's also great for organic marketing as well where you target associates of your current clients.
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Naah, just install adnauseum [1] and thank advertisers for forcing you to use adblocker. Let them pay for all the manace they couse to you and help ad networks to build completely wrong profile on you. [1] https://adnauseam.io/
Hehe yes since i installed adnauseum i love ad's...and i love that they have to pay for it, atm at 5732$ ;)
It is the equivalent of installing an app that silently opens every attachment that is emailed to you.
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This sort of reason is exactly why I started using one time credit cards (privacy) for new service signups.
+1 for privacy.com What you lose in credit card points, you 10X in savings on: 1. Unexpected "recurring" charges and 2. Time spent avoiding unintelligible unsubscribe UXs Plus, I feel a lot more comfortable trying services that require a credit card for a free trial which has led me to some extra value that I wouldn't have found otherwise. Just set the budget on the card to $1. Some people might feel bad for all the…
I may have a meagre business and live in a meagre world but would never hire a single person who subscribes to linkedin nor participates in their blatant games. It's the most ridiculous HR wetdream and yet some seem to have no problem playing along. Lay your own beds with that stuff. It's only a matter of time before you'll live in shame for what comes out and probably write woeful blogposts about how fooled you were…
I observed the same with Google's "Smart" display ads. I ran a campaign for a couple of weeks and watched all of the traffic with HotJar. The first fishy thing was 99.9% of the traffic came from foreign countries despite the target being US/Canada. When I saw the targeting wasn't effective, I even set up specific geographic exclusions for every country != US/Canada and still the traffic was from mostly underdeveloped…
I work at Hotjar and love it that you're getting value out of the product! We do try to not record bots that advertise known user agents, like Google, Bing and other common ones. Reasoning being that recording non-humans will usually not tell you much about how your UX is optimized for humans. It's really interesting that somehow the fact that we recorded these less known user agent bots actually made the product mor…
I sometimes buy fraudulent ad traffic and point it ad landing pages that should drive away humans, trying to fingerprint anything that sticks around. I'd be very interested in tracking bots that actually send you events.
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Hehe yes since i installed adnauseum i love ad's...and i love that they have to pay for it, atm at 5732$ ;)
Make sure you keep all your software up to date. Malvertising is pretty common, and adnauseum does a great job at firing payloads on your machine. It is the equivalent of installing an app that silently opens every attachment that is emailed to you.
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#does-adnauseams-...
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Not all. A major US Bank (rhymes w/ Pace Bank) used to provide this feature back in the 2000s and then rolled it back. I discovered this ~4 months ago when I wanted to buy something online but didn't fully trust the vendor. Then ended up going with Privacy.com. I'm a huge fan and would def recommend them to anyone looking for better control over subscription charges
CapOne offers that for their credit cards, but it's so clunky and unintuitive that I still wind up using Privacy 90% of the time.
I lost a couple of thousand dollars using their services (literally 5x my ad budget) because they "refill" your ad account based on the ceiling you intend to spend - without an email notification or other notification in your main profile. It cycled through my ~$300 ad budget and charged me that amount multiple times before I caught it on my bill. Never received the refund they said they'd send either. People say tha…
I don't know anything about LinkedIn ads, but I watched some of the video that this post is based on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKuyxgWuiRM It sounds like they are moaning that their client side rendered React-based landing page had a lot of bounces which they don't believe because client side rendered react pages are known to be "very very fast" and "some of the very fastest available technology". (This is aro…
A sample size of of 2,000 impressions is absolutely useless. Even the larger example is completely useless. I don’t even considering analyzing a campaign with less than 50k impressions, and I won’t look at a variable if it’s under 10k. Realistically I want a few hundred thousand impressions before trying to make big claims about fraud.