> We manage millions of dollars in annual Meta ad spend.
Oh nvm. They're full-time clickbaiters... what else did I expect.
> They set up a dedicated work account, which, by the way, is standard professional practice
Standard professional practice invented by ad agencies themselves, against Facebook's policy[0].
> It's against our Community Standards to maintain more than one personal account.
> Bear in mind that a personal profile is for non-commercial use and represents an individual person.
Really unclear to me what a business is supposed to do. Not a particularly useful link.
And before someone says "it's a bad policy..." yeah it is. But I don't think one gets to complain about how AI ruined their business when the whole business practice is built upon violating their platform's policy.
That was at their request in order to come on as staff.
Their system is ridiculously broken.
>We manage millions of dollars in annual Meta ad spend.
So AI is doing something good for once :)
>Oh nvm. They're full-time clickbaiters... what else did I expect.
There is nothing clickbait about this article. I fail to understand why take such a hostile approach to something on the internet where you completely miss the point under contention - auto account bans via AI
2 days ago I tried to create new gmail account and Google insisted that my phone number was used too many times. Fine, I'll pay for a new workspace account... Submit my billing information, that same that I use on other accounts but now there is an extra validation step that requires my ID and copies of my bank statement. Wasn't happy about that but tried it anyway. They expected my entire checking account number to appear on my bank statement. My bank account number is for my entire account and not just the checking portion but even if they were the same my bank redacts parts of the number so that if anyone gets my statement they can't just start drafting money.
The additional information section where I explain things is obviously ignored because the auto generated responses are sent pretty fast.
I can't decide what the saddest part is, the fact that their "give us a moment" emails that are send immediately after submitting still say they need extra time to process the request due to limited staffing because of covid or the fact that Gemini was brutal in criticizing them when I asked if it was normal to expect complete account numbers on the statement.
Similar to OP, the embedded help chat got in a loop of telling me I needed to speak to a rep to fix the issue and when attempting to connect me it would deny the request because I wasn't a paying customer yet.
And their spam filtering is hard to beat.
Ended up narrowing my alternatives to fastmail and Microsoft. And since one of those already also had my info I went with the existing relationship.
It used to be that if I pay I am ok, now if I pay you go to jail. so you better make sure i'm not the wrong type of guy to accept money from
Welcome to UB, at scale, in every language.
Everyone loves to complain about C (and C++) UB; well, now, you have that in every language.
We're at the point now that my manually written (non-trivial) projects C hits fewer undefined behaviour than even trivial projects constructed with an LLM and human "review".
(I even wrote a blog post about it!)
That's bad for you don't have the account yet but at Google, once you're a paying customer --and hence you're not the product anymore--, there are actual people helping you on the phone when you call them. Of course the catch-22 here is that you don't have the Workspace account yet, so you may sorry out of luck.
It honestly feels like their AI is using a hard, oversimplified rule: “iPhone 8 listed for $80? Must be counterfeit.”
This is kind of insane behavior but when you remember that google actually supports enterprise domains and SSO and facebook has very little of that - or relatively little - it makes sense. If you are personally banned from facebook for whatever reason, you cannot have a business account under another email - once you validate your identity it regurgitates the ban.
Despite this being an obvious antipattern to security it is very much by design for meta.
So of course people try to set up multiple accounts, but anyone over a certain age setting up a new account is naturally flagged as suspicious. The solution is just to allow a type of accounts that only manage business pages, but that would probably mess up their stats.
r/facebookdisabledme
r/FixMyInstagram
r/InstagramDisabledBans
r/MetaLawsuits
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?)
I only got it working stable after finding an obscure email on Reddit and re-sending my ID to a completely different confirmation system.
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.
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.
The reason why they need agencies to deploy ads is thats its not their core business - so they wont be able to setup Meta ads on their own?
I tried three times of getting insta-banned before getting advised here to do the same.
On my one day old account that had never done a transaction???
The fact that you have to open a personal account first, in order to start a developer account seems mad to me. I have no interest at all in having a personal Facebook account.
It's not "standard professional practice". It's explicitly against Meta's TOS.
its all a black box mystery. I guess we have to sue them and then compel them to give reasons and unban them
That's hilarious. Exactly how Bluesky operates.
But really. Facebook doesn't care. They've got their eyes on your clients and want to cut you out using AI tools that are easy to use.
Tech today is treated like some drunken first year collage fratboy a sex doll.
It fails. Every. Time.
Then we get popcorn time.
The site has been awful for years and years. That he's shoving AI down throats is the same confirmation we always had: he doesn't care about you (but this was obvious from Graph Search)
/s
Same thing happened to me on discord. Created new account and before first login it was already banned. Yay.
