I have a lot of experience with the Facebook ad approval process from a stint running affiliate ads on the platform many years ago. I was able to discover an o

I have a lot of experience with the Facebook ad approval process from a stint running affiliate ads on the platform many years ago. I was able to discover an oddity in the approval process, that created an arbitrage opportunity for me that was quite lucrative in the online dating space. This was very nice since I had just finished college in 2008 and the global economy and job market stood in ruins all around me, and I really, really didn't want to get a 9-5 job. My efforts were very tame (and within Facebook guidelines) compared to what other affiliates engaged in. At one end were cloaking scripts based on geolocation. Facebook ad reviewers were sent to one landing page, and visitors to another shadier and more profitable one. But even more egregious, an affiliate acquaintance I met once bribed a Facebook employee, who set his account to autoapprove any ad he wanted. He used this to advertise Google Is Hiring: Work from Home credit card rebill offers. He told me he made $80,000 in the four days it took Facebook to discover it. It was a cat and mouse game between Facebook and the affiliates in those days. This was after a short period where Facebook itself allowed these credit card rebills to be advertised on the site. Affiliate marketing was a nice cash infusion for me at the time, but I am glad to have walked away from what is really the bottom of the barrel in the internet marketing world.