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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15658182
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Here are some facts to get you oriented:
* We're shooting down UFOs on a weekly basis
* The entire world was recently shut down because of a virus
* The machines are becoming creepily human-like
* You probably can't afford eggs anymore
Steer towards how you want to be living, while you can.
~OP of the article
But if you don't mind others seeing your targeted ad, you probably could still hit your target.
Staff of the UKLabour party deceived the leader at the time by making very targetted facebook ads, so it would look to him like they were doing what the campaign as they were meant to be, while they were actually trying to undermine him.
“Corbyn’s aides sometimes demanded big spending on Facebook advertising for pet projects which Southsiders [officials at Labour HQ] regarded as a waste of money,”
> They wanted us to spend a fortune on some schemes like the one they had to encourage voter registration, but we only had to spend about £5,000 to make sure Jeremy’s people, some journalists and bloggers saw it was there on Facebook.
I have been trying to define an audience (ie, people who work at surfing schools), without much success.
However, a friend of mine recently got an ad targeting his name with some custom clothing and was confused how it happened because Facebook doesn't let you target by name. My speculation (and I'm intrigued if anyone thinks this is possible) is because his email address is $fname@$fname$lname.com, an advertiser autogenerated a giant list of common first names and my friend's last name plus common email providers or domain name patterns, fed it into FB's Audience Manager, and then targeted all the ones that matched FB logins. A sort of dictionary attack, if you will.
Step 1. Get a huge email list
Step 2. Grep that email list for peter
Step 3. Do a custom audience in FB and run a Peter t-shirt campaign
I don't know any other way to do anything "dynamic" in Facebook Ads. And FB doesn't really like that advertisers creep out their audience, even though they can. I assume it's the reason behind their policy that you can't call out personal attributes. E.g. you can't say "Hey hetereosexual white person! Click here", but you have to write it as "Here's a fun website for hetereosexual white people".
I just double checked the policies and using a first name in the ad is actually not allowed, BUT I think you can get around that by having a general ad like "Cool name t-shirts" and then the image happens to have "Peter" printed on the t-shirt.
Source: https://transparency.fb.com/policies/ad-standards/objectiona...
I would just target "Surfboard (sporting goods)", "Surfing (water sport)" and similar and then let the FB algorithm do it's magic. I.e. create a very broad targeting for your ad and then let the ad run for a while and get results, and those results will let FB automatically fine tune the targeting for you. It costs some money but it will probably be better in the end. Unofficial rumours says you need around 50 conversion events on ad for the ad to be fully "trained", which can mean a couple of hundred dollars.
Remember the targets you add have a OR function between them, unless you use the "Narrow audience" button in the targeting.
If you really want to narrow down you could do "Surfing (water sport)" and narrow the audience and find some interest that is AND <insert teaching-related interest targeting>. People that work as surf school teachers could possibly have been identified by FB with some kind of teaching-interest.
Replace Google with your ad provider.
Script up a few hundred triggers and you'll be able to target single individuals to you heart's content.
If day == Saturday, print "Be home by 9pm"
Also why do we see two different versions of the final ad?
For one email.
Why?
I’ve never received a hard on, but it is mentally enjoyable.
I’d say within reason though as a prank stops being funny when there’s some actual change made to reality instead of just perception. It’s not a good prank if someone sells their car because of it, or does something they regret after the prank is revealed.
And I haven't had a facebook account for me to edit since then. I'm glad some people saw levity, but to me it just seemed dour.
Unrelated, back in the 90s and early 00s, I used to troll people in my grade by signing up their email addresses for porn. Since most people had emails their parents monitored, this would inevitably lead to awkward questions.
I also would script kiddy people with aik bots that would boot them offline. The magic of computes with limited resources.
