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Do you really wanna pay for the privilege of going through all of this? Do yourself a favor and just leave it at a web app. That way you can still keep your creative freedom.

I'm enjoying how unhinged some of these comments are sounding. Should make for a good case study later on.

where?

Because otherwise you end up with the jankyness of a game like Oxygen Not Included instad of the solidness of a game like Factorio.

Its an ok player, but its not designed well:

- No stop button

- No way to easily stop buffering

- Auto pops open the mini player when you navigate away from the page

- Autoplay being agressively enabled by default.

All of these make it like an nightmare ex-spouse situation where all you want to do is have it stop draining your bandwidth to play videos but it won't let you go.

When i saw this was from the post, i was saddened by how many comments there where as so many seem to take it seriously.

This is partially the answer. Sometimes people are running ad blockers that block sending events to Facebook, so the "Item Purchased" event never gets sent, but the account was created with an email that can be used in custom audiences, so the email is retargeted as if they never purchased the thing.

Or someone goofed and forgot to include the exclude "item purchased" event in the criteria

Because they are still serving an ad in that spot, just one that costs the advertiser more as the now have to bid in a larger pool.

FB actually ends up profiting pretty well from this change (at the cost of losing some of the small business advertising that was priced out)

But surely, there are car enthusiasts who read about cars that would never read an article about California wine, but would benefit from knowing about it.

In your world, that person misses out on the pleasures of california wine

you(stereotypical US IT worker) have little to no paid vacation, work 8-12h a day, sometimes even on the weekends?

Oddly defensive considering that a) nobody in the thread seems to be american and b) none of those things apply to your average google employee (the original subject that was being discussed)

Oddly enough, I find the bottom up management style leads to OKR obsession (at scale). When too many smart people get in the room, they all start to have bright ideas and management is stuck trying to decipher which ones to actually implement.

The engineer who can come up with the biggest number, wins.

is there updated data from the 2020 election? FB has done a lot sine 2016

Well I definitely don't want to live somewhere where there's bigger crimes...

With all those sims, you still have a RSSI from physical cell phone tower(s), so its still serving its purpose for fraud prevention

I fed your addiction by giving you an upvote. I hope you enjoy that number next to your username, representing Karma go up. You should try to get the high score.

One thing that would help these small businesses would be SDK of sorts that would help them do proper attribution themselves.

Something that would help tie an ad click to an actual purchase or an app download.

Let's say that your search for mouse traps comes back with the classic type that kills.

Wouldn't it be better that you see an ad for a no kill mouse trap that you didn't even know was a thing? Ads can sometimes inform people about products that they didn't even think existed.

Of course this thread is being botspammed.

Bad actors hate when you talk about punishments for their actions.

That would be a very easy way of getting someones IP address with near zero interaction.

It's very interesting that this is the 4th Anti-Whatsapp post on HN in the past 2 days.

These posts seem to get a higher than normal amount of engagement also. weird.

I'm really questioning if GPT3 would come up with better responses than @slg. They seemed to talk themselves into circles, and repeat themselves quite often, not taking into account new information. It's almost like they have a litany of responses that they fall back onto.

I don't know if you know this but, existing Quest users are grandfathered in (no fb account needed) for the next 3 years so you dont have to let your device collect dust.

I'm a fan of simplicity, but it looks like you're aiming for 99% reliability.

HN is full of bad actors who don't want their jobs made harder