nickabe

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Burning my money on ad bots so you don't have to(dayzlegame.com)
2 points by nickabe 8d ago|0 comments
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by nickabe 10d ago
I think you're probably right, and even a lot of the corporate "help" is bots.
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by nickabe 10d ago
Clearly a bot - what human wouldn't want to see ads?
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I sent Google proof of a bot farm. They called it "normal user behavior."(dayzlegame.com)
1 points by nickabe 10d ago|0 comments
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How Google Ads made me an AI doomer(dayzlegame.com)
3 points by nickabe 11d ago|0 comments
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by nickabe 15d ago
Yeah sorry - adding it to Europe probably next week though.
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by nickabe 15d ago
Thanks very much - really means a lot that you enjoyed it, we put a lot of effort into making it.
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by nickabe 15d ago
Yeah if there's a DB that would be helpful - I'm not currently capturing the IP, but I'll see if I can add it in a future release.
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by nickabe 15d ago
Surprisingly, no. 29 of the 30 zero-time installs had no click at all; Google credited them to someone watching the video. The install isn't what gets the farm paid. It's what makes Google's bidding think that placement is wo
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by nickabe 15d ago
I guess that's the nice thing about not having a VC... there's no advantage to spinning to anything other than fraud lol.
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by nickabe 15d ago
Thanks, and agreed. The in-app goal was the lesson, and I'd rather have learned it at $220 than at a trial-run budget. The part I found interesting is that Google's count wasn't wrong: there really were 21 installs. You only
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I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots(dayzlegame.com)
760 points by nickabe 15d ago|432 comments