Then they would have just posted a credible sounding message instead of an obviously shady looking link.
Saying, “My advisory team studied safest crypto currencies. We are considering making Bitcoin as official digital currency of India”, would have worked better.
Or “From X:Ypm we are making Bitcoin India’s only and official currency”. Given his track record I might have beloved it.
I think it was what happened - chasing dog getting the car.
Don't expect the crypto fanatics of Twitter hacks to exercise discretion. Remember the 2020 doubling scam [1]? Hundreds of high profile accounts hijacked and the best they could do is the most ancient trick in the book.
I have to wonder what the combined effect of all these scams is on the BTC price. It can't be good for public opinion for Bitcoin to be "that thing that hackers and scam artists keep promoting on twitter".
Setting aside all of the other absurdities that Google has been throwing out here, the one thing that really gets to me is the concept that "ad fraud" is even a type of punishment for Google. I run an site with Google Ads, and users of my site have, in the past, realized this and purposefully ran autoclickers on my ads in order to get me banned from AdSense.
I don't understand how they can blame the publisher for this type of action. I understand they obviously can't pay out for the fraudulent clicks, but instead of banning the account, simply don't count the fraudulent clicks! What's so difficult about that?
I think you then run into the issue of companies trying to sneak fraudulent clicks past Google. If I knew there was little to no chance of repercussions, I would absolutely try a bunch of programs to try and sneak fraudulent clicks past.
It's like if you told a student that there was no punishment for cheating, the questions they cheated on just wouldn't count. This doesn't hurt that bad, because if you were cheating on a question you (most likely) didn't know the answer.
It's not a perfect analogy because advertising doesn't have a limited number of "questions." If someone adds fraudulent clicks to your site, there's no downside to your business. Worst case, these clicks are ignored. Best case, these clicks are actually counted. Either way, your business is unaffected.
We have a project at UC Berkeley for CS 61B (undergrad data structures) called "Gitlet", where we need to make a git implementation in Java. Was super fun!
I noticed this before but didn't really give it much thought like "worst comes to worst they delete all my repos, so what?" but I realize now that someone could literally rewrite the commit history and inject a virus into a popular repo without anyone noticing. This is terrifying and definitely needs to be addressed.
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I do the same thing as OP - I have multiple separate containers, each has its own set of cookies, and its own Google account that it is logged into. I just change my window when I want to use a different account.
From what I understand, you're asking how you can just "temporarily" log into an account — can't you just add that account as a new user on Chrome?
If not, you can always open an incognito window or a guest window, do your business, and close it. I do that often when I'm logging into an account that I don't want to persist.
High school ruined this book for me. It would've been easier to read if I hadn't been forced to tear apart every single sentence for analysis. Hearing "Great Gatsby" triggers my gag reflex now, along with most other books I analyzed in high school.
In Italy that happens with Dante’s Divina Commedia and Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi. Very good reads on their own, they get absolutely destroyed by being forced on kids.
Similar thing happened to me but with Of Mice and Men and Macbeth. Come to enjoy those stories but it always felt like I was meant to glean a deeper meaning than even the author intended!
I had this with The Picture of Dorian Gray, but on a re-read later (several years on a bored weekend, that was before I wrote code or read about code most of the time) I came to really appreciate it.
Yep same. HS English classes pretty much killed all desire to read Shakespear or any of the "important" American authors. Kurt Vonnegut's works are the only ones I remember enjoying.
If this is truly a shift in ideology at the leadership level, it's long overdue, but a welcome change; Facebook has depended on privacy-breaching practices for far too long. There will have to be some serious innovation and effort from their end in order to come up with a different business model and undo the damage that they've done thus far.
This could just be a big sham that the leadership is trying to make a big deal about, but I'm hopeful that they've finally realized that the path they're going down isn't sustainable.
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