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Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Post by nix23 »

mike_d wrote: post #212
nix23 wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Had the same idea, but my OS is so uncommon that malware probably does not exist (if it's not a targeted attack).

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Post by fakedang »

sailfast wrote: post #176

My profile is on LinkedIn because I feel like I’ll miss opportunities if I’m not on there. I’d love to remove it and go somewhere that doesn’t do this. Are there any non-terrible, more purely motivated sites for an individual to post their background and what they’re looking for so folks can view them?

Personal websites?

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Post by fakedang »

pixl97 wrote: post #3
PaulHoule wrote: post #2

I deleted my LinkedIn account because it attracted an endless number of bad business partners. I got sick and tired of all the "Joe Blow"(s) on LinkedIn who claim to be "Joe Blow Inc." (I thought the whole point of a corporation is that it is greater than one person.) I've certainly found work on LinkedIn, but my experience is that for other kinds of sales and networking it is a terrible time sink. Based on the inten…

>I thought the whole point of a corporation is that it is greater than one person. No, it is the limited liability. Don't want to lose your house because of a bad business deal.

And then there's the Middle East, where one bad deal or going bankrupt means straight to jail.

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Post by rdslw »

Simple linkedin lifehack:

1. put utf8 emoji at start of your name with space following it and then your first and last name. whatever emoji do: smile, country flag, beer. you name it.

2. discard any connect request or inmail or message that starts with 'Hello ' - it is automated

3. profit :)

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Post by bogwog »

_jal wrote: post #48
glutamate wrote: post #29

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…

I'm pretty sure I'm a bot to a lot of these sites - JS is disabled by default, selectively enabled sometimes. When greeted by a blank page, I frequently "react" by just going elsewhere.

App Annie actually banned me once when I logged with javascript disabled and privacy badger installed. I had to contact their customer support, and they just said to disable my extensions and don't do it again otherwise I'll be banned permanently.

I don't use their service anymore.

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Post by baobabKoodaa »

sct202 wrote: post #46
baobabKoodaa wrote: post #20

> Error establishing a database connection Based on the title I'm guessing this could have been delivered as a static web page delivered by a CDN. I've never understood why some people want to set up their own web servers to deliver static content.

IP lookup says it's hosted by a shared web host (InMotion), so the writer isn't running his own server.

The point is this is static web content; it should be delivered by a CDN, but it's not, and that's why it's down. If it was delivered by a CDN it wouldn't be down.

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Post by baobabKoodaa »

Macha wrote: post #27
baobabKoodaa wrote: post #20

> Error establishing a database connection Based on the title I'm guessing this could have been delivered as a static web page delivered by a CDN. I've never understood why some people want to set up their own web servers to deliver static content.

Don't know if it's a personal site or not, it sounds like it is. But at least my case is that a VPS provider provides a hard stop to spend. Sure, your service will go down if you get too much traffic, but that's a risk I'm happier with than a potentially unbounded AWS bill. That said, I've topped HN before and nginx happily handled that load on a 2 vCPU / 2 GB RAM host with a static site. A lot of these personal site…

You can set a hard cap of 0€ when you deliver static content on Netlify or GitHub Pages.

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Post by baobabKoodaa »

s_dev wrote: post #23
baobabKoodaa wrote: post #20

> Error establishing a database connection Based on the title I'm guessing this could have been delivered as a static web page delivered by a CDN. I've never understood why some people want to set up their own web servers to deliver static content.

>I've never understood why some people want to set up their own web servers to deliver static content. I've a Digital Ocean droplet running several static sites for €5 a month. Whats the problem?

The problem is that this website is down and no-one can access its content. This problem would not exist if the author had simply released their static content on a CDN. Your 5€ DO droplet is not helping me access this content.

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Post by _jal »

neetdeth wrote: post #163
rapnie wrote: post #58

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For some reason or other LinkedIn keeps thinking I must be very interested in Shell and Raytheon, though that couldn't be farther off the mark. Having selected "I find this ad annoying or not interesting" numerous times without any effect. What is this algorithm behind that thinking? Certainly not a good way to get some ad revenue from me (tbh I'm a lost cause anyway in that regard.. can count the no. of ad clicks I…

I’ve done the same to at least a dozen “Daily Show with Trevor Noah” ads on YouTube. I’m pretty sure there is no algorithm behind it. A switch connected to nothing that exists only to provide an outlet for user frustration.

Oh, it is valuable feedback. You indicated you actually pay attention to ads. They'd be foolish not to notice that.
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