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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 reuven »

djaychela wrote: post #94
reuven wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going to be redoing my site and offerings in the coming months, and I was thinking of doing some advertising along the way. There are definitely other platforms, and YouTube is one I'll be trying, but I figured it was worth a shot. Not any more, I guess!

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Thanks so much -- I know that lots of things about my YouTube channel need to change in order for me to rack up more views. I'm slowly (very slowly!) making those adjustments, but as a one-person business, all of these things take time.

I've already seen a huge increase in YouTube subscribers since I started to make some changes, and I'm hoping that things will get even better over time.

I appreciate the feedback and comments, and am delighted to hear that you're learning from my newsletters.

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

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Post by skeletal88 »

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…

In 1984 they don't have laws, only crimes, so whatever you do, you have to guess if it is illegal and will be punished or not. It is on purpose to keep the population in constant fear

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

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Post by qwerty456127 »

AIs should be globally banned from making final decisions. Whenever an AI makes a decision, it should be guaranteed that you can demand a human to actually review the case, evaluating evidence manually. It is also questionable whether lifetieme bans should be allowed to exist, let alone full bans like when Google's AI dislikes something in your app and you loose access to your GMail and everything forever (in my oppinion not even a terrorist deserves this).

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

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Post by herbst »

mywacaday wrote: post #59
reuven wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, I don't know for sure that I was banned for Python. But it's the only information that I have so far, since Meta isn't telling me anything. And the other person confirmed that he had this problem multiple times. And it's true, you're only seeing one side of the story here. But I promise, I can't think of anything nefarious I've done that would get me banned. Well, aside from my crypto casino run by drug-smoking…

Would aa GDPR request be worth filing to try and glean some additional info?

Facebook did ignore all my requests after they banned my account. I know I could sue or something but it's not like Facebook did give any fu*k about the laws.

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

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Post by Aeolun »

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…

Hell, if they let ChatGPT handle this and make a decision it would be better. At least you’d feel like you were interacting with a human.

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

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Post by Izmaki »

rightbyte wrote: post #77
Izmaki wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My immediate thought when speed reading the blog post was "just create an advertisement company, have yourself as a client and call it a day". Sometimes we gotta fight stupid with stupid, you know?

There are plenty of ad networks. It is just that they pay like 1/10th of what Google does to the site showing ads.

The point was to show the same adds, but from a different account that was not blocked.

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

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Post by throwme_123 »

Of course we can blame AI, lack of humans and stuff.

But the good news is you'll never advertise again on Meta and you can inspire others to do the same. These giants have too much power and since the justice system that should break them up is corrupt or not willing to do the job, it is up the users to do it.

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

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Post by random_coder »

pr337h4m wrote: post #57

>That’s right: I teach courses in Python and Pandas. Never mind that the first is a programming language and the second is a library for data analysis in Python. Meta’s AI system noticed that I was talking about Python and Pandas, assumed that I was talking about the animals (not the technology), and banned me. If this is true, that is insanely embarrassing for a company that purports to be a sophisticated programmat…

What's wrong with talking about animals anyway? Truly bizarre.

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

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Post by herbst »

CaliforniaKarl wrote: post #26
mvdtnz wrote: post #18

Did I miss something in the article? His only evidence that he was banned because of python (supposedly a ban on dealing in live animals) is that some other guy on Linked In who also advertised for Python courses was also banned and he claimed, without evidence, that it was because of the live animal constraint? This is not very convincing evidence. It definitely sounds like something has gone wrong, but OP is jumpin…

> How many people have come to HN to complain about being banned from Stripe only for it to turn out they were running an illegal crypto casino or whatever. How many people have come here, complaining that they’ve been banned from Stripe or blocked by Cloudflare, when it turns out they should not have. We’ve seen folks from Stripe and Cloudflare on HN, effectively saying “reach out, let’s look in to this.” I expect M…

I've got help from Google when I had a bigger account issue. Stripe isn't the fastest in responding but they really helped avoiding account issues before they became a problem.

Facebook ignored my HN rant, my GDPR requests, any emails and the 'please check if the ban was right' button was solved in less than a minute without answer and disappeared forever.

Facebook doesn't care

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

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Post by folli »

random_coder wrote: post #118
pr337h4m wrote: post #57

>That’s right: I teach courses in Python and Pandas. Never mind that the first is a programming language and the second is a library for data analysis in Python. Meta’s AI system noticed that I was talking about Python and Pandas, assumed that I was talking about the animals (not the technology), and banned me. If this is true, that is insanely embarrassing for a company that purports to be a sophisticated programmat…

What's wrong with talking about animals anyway? Truly bizarre.

Perhaps you're not allowed to use Facebook for selling animals. Which would be sensible IMO
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