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[ NNSquad ] Company pulls out of Facebook due to ad bot attacks, Facebook holding their name "hostage"
Company pulls out of Facebook due to ad bot attacks, Facebook holding
their name "hostage"
http://j.mp/T0XYLH (Facebook)
"You know what we found? The 80% of clicks we were paying for were
from bots. That's correct. Bots were loading pages and driving up
our advertising costs. So we tried contacting Facebook about this.
Unfortunately, they wouldn't reply. Do we know who the bots belong
too? No. Are we accusing Facebook of using bots to drive up
advertising revenue. No. Is it strange? Yes. But let's move on,
because who the bots belong to isn't provable.
...
While we were testing Facebook ads, we were also trying to get
Facebook to let us change our name, because we're not Limited Pressing
anymore. We contacted them on many occasions about this. Finally, we
got a call from someone at Facebook. They said they would allow us to
change our name. NICE! But only if we agreed to spend $2000 or more in
advertising a month. That's correct. Facebook was holding our name
hostage. So we did what any good hardcore kids would do. We cursed
that piece of [****] out! Damn we were so pissed. We still are. This is
why we need to delete this page and move away from Facebook. They're
scumbags and we just don't have the patience for scumbags."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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