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   Facebook Cripples Games on 3rd Party Sites(blog.hatchlings.com)

   2 points by yeldarb 14y ago|0 comments
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   by yeldarb 15y ago

   Hi Tom, I am the founder of Hatchlings. Thanks for looking into this. We completely understand the need to fight fraud. We've spent heavily on advertising as well and rely on Google and others to make sure our spend is not going to waste. O
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   by yeldarb 15y ago

   We provided that email in an effort at full transparency. If you'll note it is in the original post; we're not trying to hide anything here.
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   by yeldarb 15y ago

   I agree that you shouldn't just take us at our word (and that's why we included as much documentation as we could to support our case). But it would make it a heck of a lot easier to defend ourselves if Google had actually accused us of doi
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   by yeldarb 15y ago

   I just want to jump in here and say that we (Hatchlings) are also not asking for more leniency on fraud. We've been on the opposite side of the advertiser/publisher fence too and fraud on the campaigns we run is not acceptable. It's not eve
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   by yeldarb 15y ago

   They don't honor no-cache headers in the same way that all other browsers do which allows for duplication of virtual goods in some cases. We've spoken with their dev team but it's apparently a "feature" not a bug. Our V2 that is coming out
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   by yeldarb 15y ago

   No but Google Plus was released only a couple of months after this ordeal started. We would have loved to have been a part of the launch of their platform.
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   by yeldarb 15y ago

   It appears that our account rep mis-typed the URL in that email reply. My site was actually guitarhero-4.com, here's the orignal email we got from them: http://i.imgur.com/2mcfo.png I honestly don't think that site had anything to do with
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   by yeldarb 15y ago

   I'm the guy behind Hatchlings. The site referenced was a small content site I made to drive Amazon referrals for Guitar Hero 4 pre-orders. It was SEO'd and at the top of the search results for "Guitar Hero 4" at the time so it generated qui