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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

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Post by m00dy »

lbriner wrote: post #47

The 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…

You do not possess sovereign rights on digital platforms. I am curious about how much time it will take for the entirety of humanity to recognize that we are currently inhabiting a digital medieval era.

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

At a previous job at an enterprise cybersecurity company, we were spending tens of thousands of dollars a month on ads across Facebook and Instagram and _constantly_ were having ads and posts flagged as being about "hacking".

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

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Post by varispeed »

This is only my experience. I had great organic reach for my page. I thought I will get even more if I advertise it. Big mistake. Advertising helped a bit, but the moment I stopped paying they cut my organic reach.

I'll never touch advertising again. It seems to be designed for start ups with VC money to burn and not small business.

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

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Post by shantnutiwari »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #76

I'm banned for life from all Facebook properties (except for WhatsApp) because of my surname. They believe it's fake (or too controversial) and a copy of my passport hasn't changed their minds. I used to have a Facebook account ~13 years ago before their real name policy came into force, but I closed it because I found it awkward to refuse or accept so many contact requests by people from my distant past. Now unfortu…

and what is your surname?

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

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Post by varispeed »

m4rtink wrote: post #83
lbriner wrote: post #47

The 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.

Isn't it already under GDPR where entity using AI to make decisions need to provide an explanation how it arrived at it?

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

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Post by Angostura »

jonathanstrange wrote: post #58

I'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…

It's the kind of thing I thought had been handled way back in the 90s when AOL was rightly ridiculed from stopping people from entering the town Scunthorpe as their location because of a certain substring it contained.

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

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Post by david_draco »

gumballindie wrote: post #86
jonathanstrange wrote: post #58

I'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.

Ireland, which is milking Facebook, would block high fines. Their DPC does everything but enforce ... (see noyb.eu)

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

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Post by herbst »

I've had my Facebook account for years, I've used it as Facebook in it's early days and as blank business account with real name and passport details later. My ad spent was several thousand dollars over the years, and even thought Facebook was billing me for wrong clicks (10-30% did not fit my criteria, mostly wrong country) I went back again to publish some ads.

After a week or so Facebook suddenly banned all my ads about cotton masks my grandmum has sewn. I tried to publish one ad again and since then have been banned forever.

No way to contact, no way to ask why. No warning and no rule changes at this point.

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