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> Meta won’t be seeing any of my money, whereas companies like Google, who seem to employ at least some humans in their advertising department — will That is a
by deredede 3y ago
> Meta won’t be seeing any of my money, whereas companies like Google, who seem to employ at least some humans in their advertising department — will
That is a convoluted way to say you'll do business with companies that accept your business. Google is known for fully automated bans on your full account, not just the advertising part.
- rightbyte 3y agoEventually banning everyone is a good way to condensate spammers and scammers who will just set up a new company from time to time anyways. I haven't thought about this before, but it could explain some of the degeneration of ads over time I have been noticing.
- Izmaki 3y agoMy 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?
- rightbyte 3y agoThere are plenty of ad networks. It is just that they pay like 1/10th of what Google does to the site showing ads.
- Semaphor 3y agoWe have the opposite experience. They pay more, it’s just that the average ad-quality is also lower. We actually had to raise the minimum price even higher for the network to not show tons of borderline scam ads (now they are delivering fewer ads, but they are more relevant and higher quality)
- rightbyte 3y agoStrange. I guess it varies with what Google's magic box guesses what an add on a site is worth.
- Izmaki 3y agoThe point was to show the same adds, but from a different account that was not blocked.
- rightbyte 3y agoOh. Ye ok I get it now.
- nathanfig 3y agoInteresting point. Automated bans with no recourse will mostly deter legitimate businesses. And there is a finite supply of legitimate businesses, but infinite fake ones.
- reuven 3y agoOK, that's a fair point! I know that Google has all sorts of automated things in place, and that people have gotten frustrated with them in the past. That said, my friends who have been stymied by Google's automated systems have always eventually managed to find a human who could fix things. Meta doesn't seem to have any such offer for customers. And even three employees, who agreed that the situation was absurd and could vouch for me, didn't manage to reverse the decision.
- wlll 3y agoI once had a Google adwords campaign shut becuase I was advertising software for the Mac. The software only worked on a mac but I wasn't allowed to use Apple, Mac etc. as Google said they were trademarks. To be clear here, these words were used in context, eg. "Widget counting software for the Mac" not "Genuine Apple Software". ISTR I appealed, and was turned down with no recourse. There was basically nothing I could do to advertise software just for the Mac.