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Welp, it's time to de-google my networks then. Facebook traffic is already blocked, now I wonder how much Web content I will lose when I block all google traffic.
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What we found at a previous employer through extensive testing: advertising on Facebook works pretty well, but the highest return on ad spend was to not use any of the demographic tools at all. Also, weirdly, having an attractive product and displaying it well in photo and video ads did very well. Almost as if there is no real magic trick of effectiveness at all.
For us google ads was insane. I d encourage Google to keep record on everyone and everything after having seen how incredible their client to business matching is: as a small company, in a niche b2b product (waste management software), we got big name random calls days after starting to pay Google. In another company we spent millions on Facebook and got relatively little out of it (predatory lending marketing), we h…
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It's quite simple why people do Twitter threads. It's all about the stats for themselves. Everyone wants to be internet famous
I imagine you're probably right. But I still don't understand - why not have a single Tweet, with a summary of a blog post running on your own domain? Wouldn't that make you even more internet famous?
Hello advertisers. You are being manipulated and abused just like the consumers you are targeting. There is very little evidence to show that invasive digital advertising is actually effective. When was the last time you clicked on one of these ads and actually made a purchase? Bad for consumers and bad for advertisers. Why continue with this opaque, profit sucking charade that mainly enriches those selling the ads?
The thing is people assume everybody that is browsing is like your average hackernews user. But my mom for example continuously clicks on those ads on Facebook. I my self sometimes click on ads that shows some tooling usually I then go to Alibaba and find the unlabeled tool for like 1/3 the price drop shippers or asking.
F Twitter threads. Seriously... just... stop. It's worth noting with all the revelations in the last couple of days, that at least some of them aren't new. For example: - "Jedi Blue: A Scandal That Highlights, Yet Again, The Need To Regulate Big Tech" (19 Jan 2021) [1] - "Facebook and Google allegedly cut a deal that reduced ad competition" (17 Jan 2021) [2] - "Google acknowledges it foresaw possibility of probe of '…
Twitter threads are like powerpoint for people even dumber than powerpoint is for.
I came across this thread on my Twitter, was interested, so read parts of the linked complaint myself. I don't see what is bad about that?
Now, linking to the thread on HN seems dumb, I'd prefer something long form.
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I expect bots on a new unadvertised site within minutes. I've seen it many times. Bots are always scanning, along with script kiddies.
It is far more likely that Google found the new site from telemetry from Chrome than it is a random bot, owned by Google scanned the site within seconds.
It’s interesting that only republican states are holding google accountable on all this.
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