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jordansmith··on Ask HN: How do I make an Instagram account that doesn’t get banned?
Did you link your phone number to the account? That’s usually what stops the ban cycle. It sucks but these days most people who sign up without a phone number are bots so they put you through the ringer to prove you’re real
jordansmith··on Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage
They probably commented in the other sub

I’ve seen multiple subreddits that block people who were active in a specific other subreddit

jordansmith··on Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
They goal of a recipe website is to get ad revenue.

Top tier ad networks won’t accept your site if it’s just straight up recipes so you need to have the padding to get approved.

And it increases the amount of ads you can squeeze onto the page for higher RPMs

jordansmith··on I switched my newsletters from Substack and Mailchimp to Buttondown
This was my thought too. Mail chimp is probably the worst ESP so all options are going to beat it
jordansmith··on Help HN: Stripe shutting us down with 48 hours notice on a holiday skeleton crew
I don’t think that is the norm for most people is it?

I only get a 2fa confirmation if it’s some absurd amount of money

jordansmith··on 80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics
For most people that is the user base that makes them the most money, so I think it would be skewed in the right direction
jordansmith··on Ask HN: Do you unsubscribe from spam emails? Why? Why not?
I usually just add a filter so it automatically skips my inbox and gets deleted
jordansmith··on Migadu – No-nonsense multi-domain email at a flat price
Did you have SPF and DKIM records created properly?
jordansmith··on Migadu – No-nonsense multi-domain email at a flat price
You would be using thunderbird or whatever your client of choice is so that’s where you would be searching.
jordansmith··on Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
Think that’s sort of the point. They don’t want your ID, they want you to use Bitcoin
jordansmith··on Why haven't gamers united to take down Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies?
All my gaming friends made more money off Bitcoin than the cost of a GPU. We aren’t mad at all
jordansmith··on Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid
Ransomware used moneypak and other prepaid cards for years before switching to crypto.

And there is literally no one to fine because no one owns the “ledger”. That’s the joy of a decentralized blockchain

jordansmith··on Inside a viral website
Correct. As the affiliate blog you see nothing involving receipts or personal info for purchasers. It’s just a jumble of all your referral purchases
jordansmith··on Inside a viral website
In that example company A isn’t the one who sees it or gets money. It’s the third party sleep blog who you just clicked a link on for “top 5 memory foam pillows”. Now they see which one people buy most and can give that the favorable rating
jordansmith··on Tell HN: FB tracked my sensitive buy outside FB, cant delete a suggestion in app
Incognito doesn’t do much if they have your IP, email, name, user agent, etc. still links you directly to your Facebook account
jordansmith··on Ask HN: Have you been successful in getting your coinbase account recovered?
Recovered from a hack or a ban?
jordansmith··on An update on our security incident
That’s a different scam that has been going on for years. They phish/crack random, usually inactive, verified accounts. And then they chance the display name / profile picture to Elon’s. Then they reply to his tweets with this message
jordansmith··on Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
You are assuming the kids doing this don’t think just getting 100k is a lot of money. They most likely originally got the backdoor solely to get original usernames and someone had the idea “we could phish bitcoin with this”. I doubt they went into it with a big plan
jordansmith··on Apple forcing app developers to implement auto-billing after free trial
Don’t really need to track trials, I always just instantly cancel the subscription. You still get to use the site/software until your trial expires and then you’re not billed.
jordansmith··on Ask HN: Alternatives to S3 Buckets?
The cost of S3 for any small to medium sized project is so minuscule you’re not really giving amazon much money. Especially if you compare it to using EC2 or another VPS provider like digital ocean
jordansmith··on Buying data from Mark Zuckerberg. $900 in total revenue and still not profitable
Building his pixel means as he gets visitors who are interested in his product to his website, facebook can start to link those people together on the backend. It makes his facebook campaign smarter and start showing to people who will actually be interested in his product. Instead of just throwing it to random people.

This is how all businesses advertise, it has nothing to do with malware.

Also in terms of building your pixel OP, posting here is not helping you. We are just going to give you data that is out of the norm for your customers

jordansmith··on Ask HN: Where / how do you store your cryptocurrency wallets?
Hardware wallet would be the safest method. I use a trezor myself.
jordansmith··on Ask HN: Does Facebook automatically “like” pages on your behalf?
I would say it's either a rebranded page, or someone used a "clickjacker" on a website to get you to automatically like their page when you were browsing.
jordansmith··on Ask HN: How do you benefit from Hacker News?
"Productive" procrastination is my favorite form of procrastination.
jordansmith··on Ask HN: Looking for recommendations on an email client to replace gmail
Protonmail is a good choice. I also have used fastmail for some custom domains.
jordansmith··on Ask HN: How do you prefer to spend your weekends?
I think I get more work done on the weekends then I do the rest of the normal 5 day work week.
jordansmith··on Ask HN: Do you miss the headphone jack?
At first I was very annoyed with the change. I often need to charge my phone while listening to podcasts, and the adapters would always crap out on me.

Eventually I switched to a cheap bluetooth headset, then switched from that to airpods without looking back.

Wireless is really the way to go. No more getting caught on random objects and getting yanked out of your ears. If someone is talking to you and you take the headphones out they pause so you can talk to the person, then automatically resume when you put them back in. Quick tap on the ear pauses or skips the current song.

jordansmith··on Ask HN: Would you switch to Win 10 from OS X on a MacBook Pro?
Honestly, just use whatever you feel most comfortable with.

I recently switched from OSX to W10 and after a week it was just all the same.

jordansmith··on Screw Passive Income, I Want Active Income
I don't do any amazon affiliate type stuff as the money isn't great so I can't really help you there. There are things out there that can pull a feed from amazon and display the stuff on your site.

I have done that type of validation before. Often I'll do that if I am testing between multiple offers to see which works best. But usually with affiliate marketing you don't need to do that since they aren't purchasing anything from you, it just redirects to the advertisers site.

jordansmith··on Screw Passive Income, I Want Active Income
Pretty much everything i promote is not unique. Either affiliate marketing or items just bought off ali express. Not all of it is even available on amazon, lots of little random items.

What I sell isn't any better than anywhere else, it is just the marketing that gets people in.

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