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    Meta | They Asked For It!

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Caroline Takeda

    18 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

    Not sure if they are "AdSense" ads.)

    Adsense is not for advertisers, its a program for small publisher, not big enough (in traffic) to qualify for DoubleClick (The Google Display Network).

    Nalates might be able to give some insights into how that one works ( I am not using it, I am a greedy *****).

    Meta | They Asked For It!

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Caroline Takeda

    11 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    Didn't you just try to reassure us that we shouldn't be so paranoid?

    It's not working.

    Why?

    Again, it's not about individuals personal data. It's about GROUPS. The advertiser has no access to individual or personal data, not even IP addressee. He has no way to identify YOU.

    One group in retargeting could be, all clicks that did NOT result in a purchase : Show ads of same product
    Another group could be: All clicks that resulted in a purchase: Show ads for complementary products

    YOU are not a person to them, you are a cookie.
    Don't want to see those ads anymore? Just delete the cookie. Done. 

     

    Meta | They Asked For It!

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Caroline Takeda

    7 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:

    Did you research the camera on line? The bot was designed to take note of what you looked at on the web, not your purchases.

    Simple, but yeah, stupid.

    If you did NOT do any online research, then it's not just stupid, it's moronic. Probably programmed by the CEO's teenage wannabe hacker.

    I can shad some light on that as well.

    The system CAN track a lot more than just what you look at. It CAN track the conversions as well (purchases). It tracks what people look at (Impressions), it tracks what people click on (CTR), it CAN track which click resulted in a purchase (conversion). 

    This is called Retargeting. 

    If you are shown the same camera you already bought, that means the advertiser does retarget not very specific. He did set up a campaign using the wrong targeted GROUPS. In this case he probably did set it up as "target everybody who clicked on that product". 

    What the advertiser should have done, is setting the campaign to "clicked but didn't finish purchase process". In order to do that he needs to setup conversion tracking first. Way more effective and less costs as well.

    It is not the systems fault, or some stupid programmers fault. It is the advertisers fault.

    Meta | They Asked For It!

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Caroline Takeda

    12 hours ago, Katherine Heartsong said:

    Then .. they sell this data as very finely segmented audiences to companies that want you as a customer. So that, say, Nike knows you buy $200 runners, jog as a hobby, live in CA, are 45 year old male, and will target you with that advertising. Across every site Meta partners with.

    That banner ad is nothing compared to the $ they make doing this.

    You are their product.

    No!

    I tell you (and everybody else who is paranoid about data selling) why it is NOT in Meta's interest to sell data. The same applies to other tech companies such as Google.

    I used to work for the later and I am still involved in the online media business. I know what I am talking about, I make a living with that stuff.

    The business model is selling ads. They want companies to pay for ads to their users not for buying data. The data is what makes the ads valuable. The data is what allows to target very specific niches, very specific targeted groups and demographics.

    To give that data away is killing the business model, because the person who possesses that data, doesn't need Facebook, Google and the likes any longer. He can now do it himself.

    A user data base, is the new gold. It is what justifies a platform's existence. It is something you protect by all means and never let get anybody a hold of it (unless by accident or illoyal workers). 

    In addition, it is not about individuals data, its about collective common pattern. Nobody will pay lots of money to advertise to YOU. YOU as an individual are not important to them at all. They don't care about YOU.

    They advertise to thousand, if not millions who share common interests, common demographics or other common pattern, making a GROUP of people a target worth to advertise to. GROUPS matter not individuals

    There is a name for that: Big Data.

    They do not want to sell your data, because they want to keep selling ads.

    I put it as simple as I can:

    Data sold = no more ads = no more money

    No, you are not the product. Ads are.

    Stop being so paranoid about it.

    Meta | They Asked For It!

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    45 minutes ago, Antonioo Giano said:

    Don't worry, with 10 billion invested into it when technologies will allow, you will have legs and more.
     

    I don't think so.

    My guess is, that Marc Z. wants to make it impossible to create adult content on his metaverse,
    hence the reason the avatars have no lower body part.

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    Meta | They Asked For It!

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    19 minutes ago, Lucia Nightfire said:

    Why do I see a shameless self-promotion when I read between the large print? 🤔

    It actually meant to be funny. My warped sense of humor.

    But yes, the meta twitter account has some pretty good traffic, and some of that might end up on my site.
    However, this is not the kind of traffic which converts into sales, hence pretty useless as a self promotion.

    Traffic that converts comes almost entirely from Google searches and reddit in my case. All other traffic is just nice to have (including twitter and the forums).

     

     

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    Best places to play Poker or similar card games?

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    Posted

    I am not good at poker, and I want to change that

    I am looking for some people to play regularly as a small group  in order to improve skills and try out some strategies. We can discuss timing.

    I already set up a small private skybox for that purpose. We are not playing for L$ for obvious reasons.

    Any body interested please send PM or contact me Inworld.

     

     

     

    (I know it's an old thread!)

     

    Will it get better? Question from a new resident

    in Make Friends

    Posted

    On 6/30/2022 at 9:06 PM, Renfieldandmina said:

    My question

    Do you have any recommendations what I could do to improve my situation in sl? Some important things to learn or important things to know? Will it get better by time or will it remain a struggle? What could be an important next step?

    Yes!

    There are numerous blogs and youtube video tutorials explaining Second Life stuff. You can save a lot of time and frustration, if you simply take maybe half an hour of your time and watch/read a few of those. You do read IKEA instructions before you start. You do read IKEA instruction do you???

    And yes, it will get better. Just like with every new culture you are getting into: Integration is key. Here a couple of things you might consider: 

    Stop Acting Like a Noob! – Best 14 Tips to Get Settled in The Second Life Community

    Here a beginners tutorial:

     

     

    There are similar ones about mesh, about land buying, about creating things. So useful!

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    So what do you all think to the Premium Plus package?

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    Posted · Edited by Caroline Takeda

    1 hour ago, Sparkely Sugar said:

    it is $249 total if you pay annually

    Ok,

    Deduct from that tier for the land and minus the stipend, you pay 9 US$ per year for the additional groups and free texture upload.I suppose one can use the land allowance on parcels you already own.

    At the moment I have premium (including the 1024 on Belli) plus a 4096 parcel on Zinga. Total cost approx. 395 US$ / year. If I gave up my home in Belli, I would end up at around 310 US$.

    With the new premium plus at 245 US$ + tier for the additional 2048sm of 156 US$  would make 406 US$.

    I'd be paying 14 US$ for more groups and uploads.

    Well.

    No.

    Or am I missing something?

    P.s.: Don't care about VAT as I am exempted from that anyway, using a EU-VAT number of my registered business.

     

     

     

     

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    Text Only Chat Hangouts?

    in Make Friends

    Posted

    On 6/10/2022 at 10:48 PM, Lyndka Cochrane said:

    Oook - you're worried about giving us an eMail address so we can reply to your message? Fair enough 🤔

    Lyndka,

    it's not about giving you an e-mail adress. It's about sending personal data via an insecure website.

    SSL and https are normal Web-Standards today. For reasons.

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    Did Linden Lab Close The Affiliate Program?

    in Merchants

    Posted · Edited by Caroline Takeda

    On 5/5/2022 at 11:25 PM, Darcy Linden said:

    Hey Caroline,

    Agreed on several of your points and great ideas! Glad to see we're thinking in the same direction with regards to higher payouts.

    Answering your questions and feedback:

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    Platform independent, anyone who is being paid with USD will have to have their financial records on file. While a friends and family (referral) program wouldn't fall into that category, if we give out even L$, we'll have to have their records on file.

    With that said, I've worked with several professional platforms over the years and at the end of the day, any system they have in place will require Second Life to send over conversion metrics to do payouts. I've personally seen bad actors who try to game our conversion metrics for higher payouts and that hurts all of us.

    The reason we're folding these into one platform are (but not limited to) the following:

    • We don't want to send data to any third parties (even though it's anonymized, we take data privacy very seriously).
    • We want our partners to have a Second Life account
      • The platform will be using your Second Life account to log in
      • This helps us better identify fraud and bad actors
      • And frankly, if one is planning to promote Second Life, they should have an account
    • The same process that will allow partners to generate links and garner payouts for successful conversion goals is the same in terms of generating a referral link, so it doesn't make sense to double up the efforts here:
      • If you want to put your link on say, your YT videos, generate a link and post that
      • Want to generate a special link only for friends and family? You can do that as well!
        • This one is a bit trickier but we have a few ideas on how to prevent abuse – our first goal is to get the Partner (affiliate) Program up and running first
    • We have control on payouts (USD, L$, benefits) and we're planning to let our partners choose that

    This hasn't been set up, but after we get the Partner Program started, we can add this as a conversion goal.

    We are not on Flexoffers at this time, most likely an old affiliate looking for traffic?

    Completely agree with you on this! There's more we can do with training in this area and perhaps even interview other partners in a spotlight.

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    Also, wanted to thank you for being a partner this whole time and working through the convoluted steps we used to have :)

    ~Darcy

    Hi Darcy,

    sound all very good to me. 

    Especially the higher payouts 🙂.
    On the b2b side, I would expect a little more than a conversion goal. This is serious sales job.

    Also having the option to get paid in L$ might be very attractive for some smaller affiliates. You don't want to register an official business in rl for a few bucks. Its not only about financial records, ist about tax records. Especially Europeans want to be registered for VAT exemption.

    The only downside I see here, is the time this will take to develop. What's the planed timeline on this ?

    As fas as SEO-Training is concerned, we can talk about me supporting your affiliates. I have lots of experience in this field and used to actually work for Google.
    Check out rankings of my blog 🙂

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    Text Only Chat Hangouts?

    in Make Friends

    Posted

    On 5/19/2022 at 9:39 PM, Bloodsong Termagant said:

    well... when i go to an event... nobody is (text) talking.  so... i THOUGHT that meant they were all on voice?

     

    Wrong.

    They are in IM trying to get laid. 

    If you like to chat in open, the best if not only way is to iniciate it. Works for me most of the times.

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