I dont think its tripping only over the words Python and Pandas but possibly also the word "courses" used in the same sentense.
They think you are serving those fuzzy animals for dinner ;)
Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
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Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#82I was waiting to hear from someone else on this. We were planning on spending a decent chunk of our seed money on Meta Ads. After 3 verifications and repeated bans with no recourse we gave up.
I don't think we can blame this on all AI customer management/support, either. Google Ads assigned us an account manager for the first 90 days, we've upped our spend because they gave us good guidance and we saw conversions.
The irony that Meta remains a cesspit for fake news.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#83The whole issue around not telling you what rule you broke "because then you might work around it" is total BS. It's like a company I complained to the other day because they didn't label one of the inputs on their password reset form because "it would help a hacker know what to type in it" (it was the password reset password they expected but you wouldn't know). How much quicker would this be resolved if the first A…
Not telling you whats wrong should be highly ilegal, given how important these systems can be for modern society.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#84This feels the same like google blocking me from using adwords; it said we definitely violated something they didn't specify and were banned for life. We sold productivity desktop software b2b. Not porn or animal abuse or guns or whatever.
They have special rules for advertising desktop software. I hit the same issue but wasn't banned. Eventually it got mostly sorted out.
The most irritating problem: Apple forbid the use of any of their trademarks in Google advertising, for any reason whatsoever. That means you cannot make an ad like "Foobar for Mac" because it will trip their filters. Manual reviews and escalations don't help, the only solution is to get Apple to fax Google a personal permission letter granting authorized use, which is of course impossible. This absurd problem has existed for at least a decade. Presumably it's deliberate and to push people towards the app stores by preventing Mac developers from advertising their app outside of Apple controlled channels (which aren't comparable).
Windows has no such difficulties.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rust and Go weren’t particularly good names either. At least if you wanted people to be capable of using them as search terms. Yes, yes, you can use “lang” but still.
Swift was also a pretty well established interbank communication format which struck me as a strange choice of name. It legitimately confused me back in those days because I was working with swift messages every day.
After decades of global product launches the namespace is really full. Some overlap is unavoidable.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#86I've had similar problems with Fabebook/Meta before and eventually gave up on buying ad services from them. One solution to this problem would be a law that 1. mandates to give users the information when they are dealing with an algorithm only, and 2. forces companies to make it possible to contact humans within a specific time frame. I very much hope at least the EU will enact such a law soon. Apart from monumental…
> forces companies to make it possible to contact humans within a specific time frame.
Some EU countries do require this and it works a charm. However it doesnt seem to affect meta. That company, along with google and amazon and any other company that only relies on ai for customer support should fined into bankruptcy.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#87Honestly I feel like it would be a reasonable decision to have the government step in and give us a website to request unbanning accounts.
A lot of these services seem so Integrated into living stopping people from using them seems like taking a rights away from people.
Especially with digital laws being added in CA wouldn't be surprised if we as citizens get to control the digital oligarchs within the next 20 years.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#88I suppose there's a certain irony in an AI system not knowing what Python is. It would be even more ironic if it was Python code that made the decision.
Shows they are not self-aware. :)
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#89The whole issue around not telling you what rule you broke "because then you might work around it" is total BS. It's like a company I complained to the other day because they didn't label one of the inputs on their password reset form because "it would help a hacker know what to type in it" (it was the password reset password they expected but you wouldn't know). How much quicker would this be resolved if the first A…
In theory the GDPR means you should be able to request all your data as well as opt out of automated decision making (which would address the "why was I flagged?" and "stop being stupid this is clearly not a snake") side of things.
Of course, that's only in Europe and it's not a very easy law to avail of, sadly.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#90I suppose there's a certain irony in an AI system not knowing what Python is. It would be even more ironic if it was Python code that made the decision.
Maybe it doesn't know that it's an AI ...