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vinhboy

Fun memory, I made like $40K selling Firefox downloads.... on google ads. Learned a lot about google ads and SEO.

That was a lot of money for me as a poor kid from the TL.

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Were you paid by Mozilla?

What is the TL?

Possibly SF's tenderloin neighborhood?

I thought it was Timor Leste still makes sense I guess.

by Google, it was a special google ads program

Yep. Google paid like $2 per download of Firefox. It cost like 5 cents a click, for the "download Firefox" keyword, on Google Ads to bring someone to my website. Profit.

Was that a one off or does Google run other paid promotions like that?

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