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This had to be a gift just so she could say they were advertisers without them actually giving Twitter money. 'Please just give me something' https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1710405691129692336
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That’s, like, a test ad targeting one user to make sure the ad buying service still works
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Oct 7, 2023 02:40
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That was actually a misassigned payment; Visa had just purchased an SA account and sent the check to the wrong place.
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Yacc : someone from SA said the price point should be at 10$!
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It's just one advertisement Elon, what could it cost? 10 dollars?
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have we seen any numbers on whether news orgs are getting more or less clicks since the change? i know i'm clicking less
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Oct 7, 2023 13:56
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OgNar posted:This had to be a gift just so she could say they were advertisers without them actually giving Twitter money. Bet it's from them paying for a blue check and getting the cost rounded up because the reporting resolution doesn't go down to single digits
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Aren’t companies charged more for verification, or whatever they’re calling the blue tick now?
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Someone in that thread said its $1000 for gold checkmark but the top companies get it for free.
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https://fortune.com/2023/10/06/elon-musk-twitter-x-financing-wall-street-banks/amp/ An interesting tidbit that apparently the banks behind Musk taking over Twitter have a particular agreement that stops them from screwing each other over by trying to cut their losses.
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Morrow posted:https://fortune.com/2023/10/06/elon-musk-twitter-x-financing-wall-street-banks/amp/ So do the three of the seven banks that have the agreement just own the vast majority of the stock, as it seems there just unnecessarily putting themselves at the mercy of the other four who would of probably and now definitely are aware of that. Like this just seems like piling bad decision on bad decision.
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dr_rat posted:So do the three of the seven banks that have the agreement just own the vast majority of the stock, as it seems there just unnecessarily putting themselves at the mercy of the other four who would of probably and now definitely are aware of that. Yes, they own 70% of the financed portion. There is no stock now that Twitter is private, just debt.
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dr_rat posted:So do the three of the seven banks that have the agreement just own the vast majority of the stock, as it seems there just unnecessarily putting themselves at the mercy of the other four who would of probably and now definitely are aware of that. The trick is that often with this sort of debt if it's impaired 51% can screw over the 49% in cooperation with the company. They're allying together to avoid Musk picking off 51%. It's a very good decision because right now they are very vulnerable.
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duz posted:Yes, they own 70% of the financed portion. Private companies often have stock too. It’s just held privately. I don’t know Twitter’s particular precise structure post going private, but as a general statement “private company” does not always mean no stock. Some private companies even grant stock to employees.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Private companies often have stock too. It’s just held privately. I don’t know Twitter’s particular precise structure post going private, but as a general statement “private company” does not always mean no stock. Some private companies even grant stock to employees. This. IIRC one of the main reasons Facebook went public is because they crossed some threshold of # of shareholders that would have required them to start publishing financial reports similar to that of a public company, so the decision was made to go public.
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Well, I guess blocking any chance of debate is definitely going places, if you want to use Twitter for propaganda.
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Musk himself is just alternating between "tweeting vague nonsense about maximizing the truthiness of     It's not even funny to mock anymore, his mask has completely slipped off. It's no wonder Twitter moderation has reportedly been completely terrible in the latest events.
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I like how "having subsidized healthcare and schools" is a crime on par with "subjugating all women and killing all gays" according to that person.
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 (letter: https://i.imgur.com/vWHGqMT.jpg)   Not sure what kind of teeth the EU has for enforcing anything in this context but I can't see how "you are well aware" is the sort of thing you really want to hear in a challenge from an EU official about your website. Naturally, the replies are full of smug "if theres so much hate on here why dont you name one" bluster like the EU has any kind of obligation to litigate cases on Boer Twitter. Teratrain fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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lol YouTube is telling me to turn off adblocking or else they will block me after 3 strikes Can’t wait for Google itself to start doing this.
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Today in "this is technically illegal but who knows if there will ever be consequences": Twitter's new "stealth" ads may be breaking FTC content labeling rulesquote:Under Section 5(a) of the US Federal Trade Commission Act, companies are banned from using deceptive ad practices, meaning consumers must know that ads are, well, ads. For social platforms, this means that any native advertising, or advertising designed to look like content on the platform, needs to be clearly labeled.
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The ads are also breaking the EU DSA rules.quote:The new rules will empower users in understanding and making informed decisions about the ads they see. They will have to be clearly informed whether and why they are targeted by each ad and who paid for the ad; they should also see very clearly when content is sponsored or organically posted on a platform and should also see when influencers are promoting commercial messages. Notice and action obligations also apply for potentially illegal ads, as for any other type of content. Not sure if they are serving those ads in the EU though. I'm sure twitter has carefully considered this change  Big lol if twitter gets the first two warnings for breaching a new law.
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Boris Galerkin posted:lol YouTube is telling me to turn off adblocking or else they will block me after 3 strikes is this when youre logged into your google panopticon account? also what browser or device?
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I've seen people reporting it on Chrome. I think they're slowly rolling it out to make sure they don't lose a ton of revenue/market share in doing so. I'm a Premium subscriber, but this still caused me to switch to Firefox
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Yeah glad I switched to Firefox earlier when google announced they were going to start monetizing all their searches and tracking. I haven't had any problems on FF and I only log into Gmail within a container tab (which are awesome btw).
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I have tried various extra adblocking extensions for Chrome that supposedly work for that new Youtube timer that might work for a few hours before getting another one. There is a reddit thread that people have been posting extensions that work, but the 3 i've tried still get that eventually popup. There are a few people in there saying its happened to them on Firefox also, but most Firefox users dont seem to have gotten it at all.
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Can Elon’s creditors wrest twitter away from him and try to save it? I pray not.
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I had no idea YouTube was doing anything about adblockers, I haven't seen a YouTube ad in years and I watch tons of stuff on YouTube and haven't gotten any alerts about needing to turn mine off. I've got like 3 adblockers, and a couple things blocking trackers, and other poo poo that maybe fucks with it.
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OgNar posted:I have tried various extra adblocking extensions for Chrome that supposedly work for that new Youtube timer that might work for a few hours before getting another one. I recently made the switch to Firefox after Chrome decided to just disable my adblocker entirely, and on Youtube I'm not getting any timer but I am getting a little popup from youtube trying to guilt-trip me about using an adblocker. I can just close it and play the video immediately though.
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Mercury_Storm posted:Yeah glad I switched to Firefox earlier when google announced they were going to start monetizing all their searches and tracking. I haven't had any problems on FF and I only log into Gmail within a container tab (which are awesome btw).  I use Firefox, but keep Chrome around for these occasions.
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Clarste posted:I recently made the switch to Firefox after Chrome decided to just disable my adblocker entirely, and on Youtube I'm not getting any timer but I am getting a little popup from youtube trying to guilt-trip me about using an adblocker. I can just close it and play the video immediately though. Same experience with Firefox. Youtube isn't stopping me from doing anything, but it does throw popups at me now and again about how adblocker are bad and make the little children cry.
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This is why Google is suddenly interested in verifying browser integrity- so they can cryptographically guarantee you're running a browser incapable of blocking ads before letting you watch youtube
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I've found that multiple online shopping sites' carts fail on Firefox and succeed on Chrome. Yeah, even though browsers tend to just work with everything better these days, I still find it good to always have at least two browsers on a computer. I find edge is just fine for a back up browser. It's already on windows machines and never had any problems with it.
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AdBlock, AdGuard, Ghostery, uBlock Origin, and J2TEAM Security are all working fine on my Chrome and it's fully updated. Are they only doing it in certain regions or something?
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Same experience with Firefox. Youtube isn't stopping me from doing anything, but it does throw popups at me now and again about how adblocker are bad and make the little children cry. Same but without the guilt trip popups. I use ublock origin and adblock for youtube.
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I guess cutting tens of thousands of jobs wasn't enough to make the numbers go up. I did get a "AdBlockers are not allowed on YouTube" pop-up yesterday for the first time, although I don't think it came with a countdown.
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