thesmileyone

Joined 14 years ago

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33 year old interested in Performance Marketing.
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Comment · 17 days ago
I got hit with this.

It's almost like Plex is trying to convince me to dump it for Jellyfin lately

- raising the prices of membership

- making the UI terribly slow on all devices

- constant cve's

- constantly spamming my email with offers despite already paying for premium

Comment · 2 years ago
basic html, some frames (remember these?) a few pics, exact match domain name, add content and build some backlinks... rinse and repeat ready for google adsense in 2003 for your $100k a day profit.. back when it was really easy to make bank online.
Comment · 5 years ago
Takes me about 10 mins per post to find a captcha that I can actually see. Half the time the slider doesn't show up. At least they have tweaked it slightly now that it remembers your post, at first you had to copy everything and open a new reply window if you failed the captcha. I used 4chan a lot (pol occasionally, x a lot, o a lot) because I like relatively freedom of speech and now I use it like 10% what I did before because the captcha fails so much.

Ironically the blatent bots have already circumvented it.

Comment · 5 years ago
Consequences are one hell of a thing.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
This is what happens when you direct link.

Ie FB ad - conversion.

Instead you want a showy FB ad that takes them to a landing page that looks like your website (native) to build trust, maybe have them answer some questions to get qualified etc. There's numerous ways to filter out "bad traffic".

Comment · 6 years ago
Depends what you care about more, revenue or a more humanitarian customer experience.

There's plugins like "Miserable User" available to get rid of members without offense / them knowing (unless they are intelligent).

Or you could just...ask them to be less grumpy?

"One is a hard worker and adds so much value to a different part of the site that it is difficult to envision asking them to leave." Agreed. putting up with that might be the duality involved.

Comment · 6 years ago
We still do, it's called native advertising and it's a HUGE market.
Comment · 6 years ago
What did you think of the Stuxnet code from your perspective? Was it clear who made it from the start, and what it's purpose was? (Iran or China vs India?). Thanks.
Comment · 6 years ago
Isn't this what 5-eyes have been doing with MiniX3? etc
Comment · 8 years ago
I based my decision on liking mountains and the sea, so I live near mountains and the sea. I prefer solitude, I have no friends by choice, and I work online. In my time off I either go to the beach (in the summer) or I go hike mountains.

I like mountains.

Comment · 9 years ago
Mass. I like to buy cheap clothes. I don't ever want to stand out as "rich person" to anyone... and in some cases it is preferable to just buy a completely new set of clothes rather than having to wash the current set (time management).
Comment · 9 years ago
A house.

100% srs.

Buy the land and build your own house. You will learn so much... and you will make a load of money too!

Comment · 10 years ago
Unless you put criminal sites in the filter, I can't see how this will help? And if you do...you it will trigger an alert and then they can hax you...legally.

Lose lose all round now.

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