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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 megous »

vitro wrote: post #223
megous wrote: post #210

I mean who cares. Some website blocked some person from spending money on advertising on their platform. This person who already has their own website and a lot of means to propagate whatever they wish and conduct business on the Internet in many other ways. It happens all , the , time . Also this non-sense is repetitive here, with nothing new to add, nothing technical, nothing intersting. Just useless filler content…

Until it happens to you.

No, I don't care. I removed myself from Facebook before instagram was even a thing. Only thing I'd be pissed about would be ISP censorship, or someone taking away my domain, but there are strict rules around that already, so I don't worry.

Anything else is pretty much just inconvenience and the cost of doing business.

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

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Post by schoen »

EmilioMartinez wrote: post #222
jaketheguy wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just guessing here, but if the senteces sounded like "how to use pandas to help you in work" AI could have decided that you're going to use a cute bear to lay bricks for you. Plus the "exotic animals", as someone else mentioned.

Makes me wonder what's the worst possible phrasing "Master Python and Pandas, make them work for you, attack new challanges, earn good money"

"How to use the innards of Python and Pandas"?

"If you find yourself fighting with Python and Pandas, I'll help you improve your technique"?

"Using Python and Pandas in the wild"?

"10 unexpected uses for Python and Pandas in the food and apparel industries"?

"Breaking all the rules for Python imports"?

"How to replace your whole ecosystem with just Python and Pandas"?

"Put Python to work on the family farm"?

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

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Post by megous »

SeanLuke wrote: post #218
megous wrote: post #210

I mean who cares. Some website blocked some person from spending money on advertising on their platform. This person who already has their own website and a lot of means to propagate whatever they wish and conduct business on the Internet in many other ways. It happens all , the , time . Also this non-sense is repetitive here, with nothing new to add, nothing technical, nothing intersting. Just useless filler content…

According to Statista, Facebook is approximately 1/5 of all global ad revenue. That's not just "some website".

Yes it is. Just advertise on the other 4/5.

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

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Post by nabla9 »

eesmith wrote: post #204
nabla9 wrote: post #158

Check if anyone who is competing with you has personal connections with Meta, or someone just don't like you. Meta staff have been hijacking Facebook, Insta accounts (and few dozen have been fired for doing so). It would be not surprising if some working for Meta, or their spouse or friend, is doing what you are doing and they are cutting your legs.

From the link: "I’ve been in the computer industry for a while, and have no small number of contacts. Three friends who have worked at Meta (two current, one past) offered to check into this for me." Followed by a description of their failures.

Yes, and some of those 'friends' may be the one who got him canned. The evidence of their involvement is already destroyed (180 day retention).

Check for friends who compete and work with Meta.

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

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Post by em-bee »

wiz21c wrote: post #201
distances wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An acquaintance of mine (in Europe) had a default bank transfer message "al-qaeda terrorist fund" for years and years. That did finally raise some flags, but a visit to a bank office was enough to get the account unblocked. Being a bit stubborn, he still kept the message and just applied rot13 to it.

I once wanted to make a small network of bots hosted at frriend's homes. These bots would talk each other by sending some Shakespeare's play excerpts where you would replace the names of the characters by names of various criminals. Just to see how long before I get caught :-) Until I read that the law in my country explictely forbids "deceiving" the police...

how is that deceiving the police? it is a performance of fiction.

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

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Post by RugnirViking »

zmmmmm wrote: post #91

What I find most frustrating about this is that they straight up lie to you. They don't actually review your account and the ban isn't permanent. The minute people in this situation get through to a human (one with any autonomy, anyway) the ban gets reversed. So it's all about the cost and efficiency and convenience for Facebook/Meta. I definitely think there need to be laws made about this. Because it's really clear…

There exist laws about this, which provide a market solution. It's just that everybody has their fingers in their ears yelling about how big tech aren't monopolies so the existing laws aren't being applied.

In an actual competetive environment, you would go to the next door buisness that didn't arbritrarily ban you/has actual people in their customer service...

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

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Post by doubled112 »

mysterydip wrote: post #228
steve1977 wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your sarcasm has been noted and recorded.

Everything you do has been noted and recorded. We'll determine later if it's something we don't like in the future.

This concept scares me more than most.

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

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Post by felipemesquita »

I got the exact same permanent ban for supposedly violating Facebook’s advertising policies, but I’ve never ran a single ad there. My account was unused for about five years, when I recently logged in to try the WhatsApp API, I got an email asking for a document to confirm my identity. I sent the email and received a successful response. About a week later I received an e-mail of a permanent ban from fb ads. Annoyingly, even though I had no plans to advertise there, I can’t generate a system user and get a longer than two months access token for my WhatsApp api. Also, my business (registered within my personal account and I’m the sole member) has full advertising capabilities. TLDR - I got permanently banned form ads without ever running an ad - due to the add ban I can’t create a _system user_ and so my WhatsApp api tokens are limited to the two month extensions allowed on the temporary tokens - my dev/business within my one account can advertise on fb normally - obviously there nothing resembling support from fb

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

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Post by absrec »

pjmlp wrote: post #153
btparker wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah! How dare they, referencing literature.

That wasn't the point, no need for literature references when you can enjoy that kind of life today when living in less fortunate regions.

Draconian IT laws mean that in many countries you could be persecuted for threatening national security as a blanket rule with indefinitely the long harassment called investigation.

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

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Post by tim333 »

Going forward probably the answer to dumb AI which can't figure if python is snakes or code, is smarter AI. I mean FB and Google are unlikely to suddenly hire thousands more smart people to sort this but already AI like ChatGTP seems smart enough to do a reasonable job on understanding "why was I banned?" and "no, code not wild animals" etc.
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