nickabe

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   I sent Google proof of a bot farm. They called it "normal user behavior."(dayzlegame.com)

   76 points by nickabe 11h ago|13 comments
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   How Google Ads made me an AI doomer(dayzlegame.com)

   4 points by nickabe 1d ago|0 comments
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   by nickabe 5d ago

   Yeah sorry - adding it to Europe probably next week though.
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   by nickabe 5d ago

   Thanks very much - really means a lot that you enjoyed it, we put a lot of effort into making it.
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   by nickabe 5d ago

   Yeah if there's a DB that would be helpful - I'm not currently capturing the IP, but I'll see if I can add it in a future release.
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   by nickabe 5d ago

   Surprisingly, no. 29 of the 30 zero-time installs had no click at all; Google credited them to someone watching the video. The install isn't what gets the farm paid. It's what makes Google's bidding think that placement is wo
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   by nickabe 5d ago

   I guess that's the nice thing about not having a VC... there's no advantage to spinning to anything other than fraud lol.
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   by nickabe 5d ago

   Thanks, and agreed. The in-app goal was the lesson, and I'd rather have learned it at $220 than at a trial-run budget. The part I found interesting is that Google's count wasn't wrong: there really were 21 installs. You only
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   I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots(dayzlegame.com)

   761 points by nickabe 5d ago|433 comments