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Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by jacquesm »

lucasmo wrote: post #28
mitchwainer wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me know if you're still having problems.

I also see this ad repeatedly. It doesn't bother me at all, but I thought I should comment in case it helps making your campaign more effective. Just to show you how much it shows up: my WIFE already recognizes it, just from hearing it when I'm working by her side. I'm sure retargeting works in some context, but I'm guessing you are overdoing it in some cases. (I'm in Brazil, but I browse mostly in English. Maybe it…

Re-targeting short term increase in profits, long term increase in irritation and ad-blindness.

Probably the #1 cause for people to install ad-blockers.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by alive-or-not »

yatsyk wrote: post #29
diziet wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can potentially install adblock and never see said ad (or any other ad) unless you need to disable adblock. It's a case of simple and effective retargetting.

Adblock works for desktop browser. But I watch youtube on mobile or android media player in app mostly.

There are ad-blockers for Android, they don't even require root on 4.x.

There are also WiFi routers that filter all traffic.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by rdl »

yatsyk wrote: post #29
diziet wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can potentially install adblock and never see said ad (or any other ad) unless you need to disable adblock. It's a case of simple and effective retargetting.

Adblock works for desktop browser. But I watch youtube on mobile or android media player in app mostly.

Would you be willing to use a mitm proxy as part of a VPN service to accomplish that?

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by alive-or-not »

Nux wrote: post #20

I work in a DC and DDOSes happen very frequently. Because everyone can hire a botnet for 50 euros, there will be even more coming. Should I post to HN every time my company gets hit?

Yeah, it's quite convenient. When I'm short on cache I just DDOS my biggest competitors.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by ljf »

lucasmo wrote: post #28
mitchwainer wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me know if you're still having problems.

I also see this ad repeatedly. It doesn't bother me at all, but I thought I should comment in case it helps making your campaign more effective. Just to show you how much it shows up: my WIFE already recognizes it, just from hearing it when I'm working by her side. I'm sure retargeting works in some context, but I'm guessing you are overdoing it in some cases. (I'm in Brazil, but I browse mostly in English. Maybe it…

@jacquesm - totally agree - retargetting is the sole reason I installed Ad-Block.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by Killswitch »

larrys wrote: post #13
Justsignedup wrote: post #3

what is digitalocean? These ddos attacks are kind of like free marketing campaigns :)

"are kind of like free marketing campaigns" While people might laugh at what you are saying in the mid to late 90's many of the well know dot coms of today (ebay for example) got publicity because of bad things happening. People trying to sell things they shouldn't on ebay "my virginity for sale" etc. Always made the news. I don't believe this was the intent here for sure but I do note that they say: "There is an on-…

As a DigitalOcean customer, I don't see it as a marketing campaign, I see it as them letting their customers know that they are being DDoS'd incase their main site is down or something due to it and the customer thinks their VPS is down too. Just because someone posted it on HN and a few others upvoted it doesn't mean it's marketing.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by kidcoach »

d23 wrote: post #19
bencollier49 wrote: post #11

These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action". Perhaps someone finally snapped and DDOS'd them.

> These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action". Oh please tell me more about how the people helping to support the largest video database in the history of mankind -- available 24/7 at your fingertips for free -- are "plaguing" you with their relevant advertisements that take all of 5 seconds to skip. If you really want to b…

We can't critique bad youtube ads because youtube is good ? That seems logical.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by ntumlin »

kidcoach wrote: post #37
d23 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action". Oh please tell me more about how the people helping to support the largest video database in the history of mankind -- available 24/7 at your fingertips for free -- are "plaguing" you with their relevant advertisements that take all of 5 seconds to skip. If you really want to b…

We can't critique bad youtube ads because youtube is good ? That seems logical.

I think d23 interpreted it to be a complaint against all ads on youtube as opposed to that particular ad being annoying.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

pfraze wrote: post #22
d23 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action". Oh please tell me more about how the people helping to support the largest video database in the history of mankind -- available 24/7 at your fingertips for free -- are "plaguing" you with their relevant advertisements that take all of 5 seconds to skip. If you really want to b…

To be fair-- and sorry to DigitalOcean guys that are reading this, but this is honest feedback-- that ad really bugs me. It's got the "rockstar-itus." It's hard to pin down why that feels condescending, but it does. I hear really good things about the service, though, so kudos to DigitalOcean for that.

I think the issue is that the ads "read" so unauthentically compared to the very positive experience I've had with DO and their wonderful setup tools, documentation, etc.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by bencollier49 »

mitchwainer wrote: post #16
bencollier49 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did not! Do I have to watch it all the way to the bitter end to finally be rid of it? Because I have not done that. Nice potential-customer-service btw. Thanks! Although I did rather imagine you lot would be all over this thread :-)

Let me know if you're still having problems.

Thanks. To add to the guy who said he was in Brazil, I'm in the UK, perhaps it's non-US people who are getting deluged.
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