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throwaway23545
11y ago
I ended up hating it. I would quit a job before doing it again. Some hints, most of which I arrived at the hard way. 1. Set some limits - have work hours, and if you can "go to work" even if that's just going into the offi
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throwaway23545
11y ago
Well there's a simplistic view of the world if I ever saw one. It is not, for many people, the advertisers that are the problem, but the ad networks. It's the ad networks that cookie and track. It's the ad networks that load
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throwaway23545
11y ago
Personally I agree completely. As someone in tech I find it very difficult to ascribe meaning to a meaningless number. Especially when people "like" things they hate for comedy or irony purposes, or clicked accidentally a few ye
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throwaway23545
11y ago
I think it's the reverse that's more insidious. Who doesn't automatically distrust a business with just 24 likes? Creates a situation where you almost have to buy some fakes to get to perception neutrality where real likes
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throwaway23545
11y ago
FB's own advertising is as cheap than fiverr. $5 can get you a thousand or two likes if you geo locate the campaign to certain parts of the world. Some parts of the world seem to like everything! Seems to be all legit accounts, so pr
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throwaway23545
11y ago
But who, in this day and age, would trust or hire a new online business that had a page with 0-100 likes? The apparent presumption on seeing under 1k likes or under a few thousand twitter followers is the business is defective. Or forgott
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throwaway23545
11y ago
Want something more than a year old or a little less than mainstream? Good luck finding an active torrent. Maybe you'll find one with incredible bandwidth where the CD or TV show from a year or two back you seek can download at all i