The same thing is happening to end users, the consumers that they maybe want seeing those ads. Random, totally out of the blue bans on Meta platforms for no rhyme or reason. It's all over reddit:
I wonder if they ever had enough of the California Attorney General on them (after people posted guides on how to seek resolution through that channel)
btw saw recommendations to use a VPN to be able to use the complaint form… overall, wonder how much Meta cost taxpayers there (maybe they make up for it?)
It has been happening in other platforms too. I had a tough time creating a new LinkedIn account after deleting mine around 10 years ago. At one point one day in the new account I got banned, then I submitted my ID and got in only to be banned again within the same timespan. All the same accusations that the profile information I submitted was not “correct”, translation: I was not me according to someone else’s idea of what being me is, even though I was able to show them a proper ID.
I only got it working stable after finding an obscure email on Reddit and re-sending my ID to a completely different confirmation system.
I wasn't going to send my driver's license to some overseas contractor... I eventually hunted down a form for submitting a notarized statement proving who I was. It's more than a bit ridiculous.
In general, its really stunning that Meta stock price grew that much since 2012 - when they IPO'd in 2012, I thought i will be a "cheap stock" around 50 - 70 USD.
nice username... I was going to say, we warned about this with the google+ real name policy "nymwars" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars and the cloudflare AI bot blocking that blocks humans
Yes it's potentially good for reducing spam and terribly good for collecting personal information for advertisers. Both at the expense of making social networks inaccessible to real people.
I assume it's an economics issue. As long as they continue making money off the uploads to a higher extent than it costs for storage, it works out for them.
I like to use textual anchors for things like, "line starts with" or "line ends with" or "file ends with" and combining that with levenshtein distance with some normalization stuff (combining adjacent strings in various patterns to account for OCR wonkiness). Turns into building lists of anchors that can be built off of. Of all the things I've tried, including things like image hashing and such, it's been the most effective generalized "tool".
But also, I hold the strong philosophy that it's important to actually read the documents that are being scanned. In that way, OCR tends to be more of a procedural step than anything.
I think that's silly. Do we really live in an age where we feel it's better to simply not communicate with people in the slightest?
Give them a call, you're not harassing them. If they choose not to answer or call back a voice mail number, then you can presume they don't want to be contacted.
Before posting this idea online... Maybe, possibly, but personally I still think it's a bad idea.
After posting this on HN - no! If you think it's a good idea, so will other people reading this. (And others have before you) After the post reaches the front page - absolutely no - there's a bunch of socially awkward people already thinking about calling the author and they really should NOT DO THAT.
The author owes us absolutely nothing and if they want to disappear, that's their right. Calling them is demanding their time in a not trivial to ignore way. Just write an email that can be deleted async.
You are right: it is silly, but also, given the amount of robo-calls in the US, cold calling someone you don't know is a good way to be put on auto-spam.
If you really want to reach out, his email seems to be the way he prefers to be reached, so that's what I'd recommend.
> I think that's silly. Do we really live in an age where we feel it's better to simply not communicate with people in the slightest?
I agree it’s silly. But it’s also the prevailing view that I’ve seen.
I still answer calls, even if 95% of them these days are either phishing attempts or vendors trying to sell me stuff. But my friends will text me first and say “can I call you” even if I say they can just call.
We all know what kind if information the Trump administration and their allies want to spread: misinformation, disinformation and right wing propaganda. Then they accuse anyone fact checking it or otherwise of 'censorship' when they refuse to allow it to spread.
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