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I like this style of what I’m assuming is marketing.

Infrastructure providers open sourcing code so infrastructure users can then copy it and sell it.

It’s a symbiotic relationship. By providing Meta with this data, Home Depot is better able to target future buyers with more relevant ads.

The reason Meta became such an advertising powerhouse is its ability to target. Targeting is made much better through the passing of “positive” signals.

Meta receives this kind of data from nearly every online store. Oftentimes it’s done through server side integrations which are completely unblockable by ad blocks. (Meta Conversions API)

This system is available for other giants like TikTok and Snap, and to a lesser extent Google. For google you have to take extra steps to get around ad blockers.

I would be surprised if any retailer spending money on meta ads DIDN’T do this.

On a related note, I’m curious, why don’t ad blockers mess with the window datalayer? As far as I’m aware serverside Google Ta Manager tracking implementations rely on pushing to the datalayer on the client.

Can you link that research?

Specifically for locksmiths and garage door companies, Google Ads tries to fight back against this[0]. I've gone through this with a few clients.

However, they still let lead aggregators get verified, provided they have a local business license. However, "legacy" google ads accounts like locksmithdirectory.com seem to be able to advertise anywhere in the nation.[1]

[0]https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7167635?hl=en

Tanstack is working on a router that purports to solve a lot of this.

https://tanstack.com/router/v1

They catch serverside GTM?

Not my experience.

1. Serverside GTM and segment proxied through a first party domain get around ad blockers 2. Many traditional paid media sources like Facebook ads open in in-app-browsers that are unlikely to have ad blockers 3. Marketing and product analytics tend to be separate.

Yeah Streamlit is incredible. I don’t think it’s trying to be a Web app framework. It’s such an easy way for me to deploy my data visualization.

The migration guide looks simple enough: https://vitejs.dev/guide/migration.html

Makes sense! And by the way thanks for teaching me React two years back, your course was the only thing that made sense to me.

Do you find that people use the “remind me on my computer” feature? I like it

Agreed. Moving my Python data analytics to a GRPC server that I call from a Go service has been _so much_ easier to manage and debug.

Use proxy.webflow.com for your cname if you face a redirect loop (though I’m thinking that’s not your problem after re-reading it)

Can you cache the requests more aggressively?

What do you mean live debugging isn't a thing? Delve integration into Goland makes setting breakpoints and analyzing variables great.

Of course it's nothing like Python where you can stop execution and start manipulating variables...

Yeah. I work in marketing and creating many variations for display ads can be tedious.

This seems like it would be good for creating display banners too!

I run Google Ads for a living.

You can’t set the domain. Just the path.

Yeah, I'm curious of this too, especially compared to just running standard Intellij IDEs

Seeing API gateway issues here: https://www.taloflow.ai/is-aws-down/us-west-2

The bandwidth alliance only applies to serving web content. Backblaze and R2 are not exactly aimed at the same market

This is what he’s referring to from Gary Halbert (at least one of the more famous examples of Gary telling students to write out ads)

https://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/

“Breakthrough Advertising” by Eugene Schwartz.

The relevance for any marketer is incredible. Much of what I read from “gurus” is essentially just rewording this book.

I find critters[0] quite easy to work with and well worth implementing on my nextjs or Astro projects.

I build a lot of landing pages so there are very few multi page visits.

[0] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/critters

~$900 because my wife is pregnant.

Ironically, wouldn’t using WARP by Cloudflare solve this?

> Of course, it is not feasible to provide it to all users, but in case of Google even if you spend in the range of XX thousands - Y million $ per year with them, you have a very hard time speaking with a human being, even if SHTF.

That's not my experience. Unless your whole account is suspended you can usually get through to a human on ad disapprovals.

Many accounts I've been on in the XX thousands - Y million $ per year range also get dedicated contacts (glorified sales people) that can sometimes help with disapprovals.

I look at duckduckgo, they do tons of Top of Funnel advertising like billboards.

Do you think that they should cease this type of advertising and just try and show up when people search "privacy conscious search engine"?

Oftentimes marketing is focused on those who aren't "problem aware" which can bring genuine value.

These types of marketing messages focus on bringing a previously unknown problem/inefficiency to someone's mind and show the solution.