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I agree there are laws that need reviews, ammendments and I would even go as far and say it is not my laws, we are all born into the system and have to suck them up.

However, here nothing has been disrupted, rhe meddalions are stronger than ever in Europe. So all the little savings here by using uber will cost more in the long term now that the taxi cartell has been reinforced. Same for hotels.

At least taxi drivers know safety protocols, same for hotels.

So the fallout goes beyond of what people think.

If this stuff comes at the cost of pretend customer service or exploitation of work forces or customers, the regulatory hammer should be, swift and heavy hitting.

We are far from this as a society, the exploiters can use their ill gotten funds to pay for legal defense. The bit of damage done to society and people finds no representation. Try ripping of a bank or take from the rich and your life will be disrupted before you can do a ten count.

Oh my, oh my, how the tune has changed on hn and social media on this and uber.

Whereever people sense they can make a buck or save a buck, laws amd regulations be damned.

I have never swayed an inch off my view.

I knew first hand how this affects housing prices and wear, I live in a severly affected area and pay the price for it, literally.

Same for uber. Neither is cheaper than the previous thing, hotel offers better bang fpr the buck, uber has surges and exploits the drivers and isnt even cheaper. Nope, I dont qanna hear about these drivers wouldnt have a job at all without uber. Lol.

Just because some tech bros with sexist issues can make an app and a service without customer service does not mean jack shit.

Airheadbnb is being declared cosa non grata in more and more places, uber is literally outlawed in half of europe.

Theres your business, kalashnick and the other pajasos.

If I had my own country or my way, I would send these clowns to prison no questions asked, to, you know, disrupt them a bit.

Do not come have a shit in my place.

I am all for the strictest and heavy handed regulation on these matters.

Hotels expensive? Well, then stay at home or go to a motel or some cheaper destination. If its too expensive, your kin has no business being there, mate.

Taxi too expensive? Get a car, use public transport. Walk. Screw uber and the consumers of it.

I have sympathy for the drivers waiting in the dark on italian airports, but not uber, its a zero sum game to increase prices later on or to have a self driving fleet which then somehow makes this non viable business model good? Hell no, this is a deliberate scheme to burn through investor money.

Airbnb and Uber are the scum of the earth, its a shame the population let them get away with this stuff for a while. People are inherently and helplessly stupid on some things. In hindsight, its always easy to play the innocent one with a halo hovering over the head.

I wonder where the fierce hn defenders of these models are today.

When they say wobble, by how much distance does the space aroubd it wobble? How would this feel on earth?

I am all for wfh, but now as a part owner of a business which is growing fast enough so most customer facing staff cant keep up, I am considering a hybrid.

The knowledge just does not propagate and all the colab apps in the world will not help if you have 3 shifts. Virtual meetings with cams off or even on, you dont know if the people follow.

I dislike paying for an office but it seems unavoidable.

I dont think half the team is doing nothing , I know for sure, seen the dev commits etc. And if they do something, they do not do it right or efficiently, despite procedures written down to the t and many training.

Well, they have been published now.

If this can leak so easy, it makes me wonder how safe api keys are. They are supposed to be hidden away, we know, but so is proprietary code.

You cannot really blame them, it is natural to question absolute authorities and centralised power.

And indeed, this is a place for tech people and devs who cant be experts in economy and banking.

I worked in banks as well as dev, the banks are doing dirty things under a legal umbrella, dont think of them as saints, all the wealth they have came from somewhere.

Now, a central bank, I am fine with that, it is important to keep the economy stable. They cannot always please everyone and they need to be politically independent, or not influenced. The politians understand that, most of the voter s do not. Imagine if every john doe had a say on a central banks SOPs

I do not think the intentions were poor.

He obviously copied the freedom dollar concept and even said they have a couple years until the government catches up.

He knew what happened to the previous own currency people so he stayed anonymous.

This was an incredibly bold operation from the begining. They planned to exit one way or another, using the incorporated in the US to gain trust and the plan was not to just disappear, but file for bankruptcy as in "it happens".

It is remarkable how they used the depositors or investors money to pay for their lawyers and yet the government considers this a chapter 11 instead of 7, as if there is any way to conduct business going forward. Reputation gone, money gone, the owners gone.

Every time something like this happens, on such a scale, makes you wonder, how can so many people fall for this?

I am not sure greed is the only factor, there must be more behind it, some shrinks will have a field day.

And all the victims are now asking for a government intervention.

There is no free lunch, even mashinkis money will come at a large cost. From what I read, many lost over 100k and some lost 7 digits, certainly some shady people amongst these.

In conclusion, this was planned from the very beginning. If they could run this profitable, fine, if not, they hiding money followed by chapter 11 was the backup plan.

You could automate this with a script running at certain intervals.

Some will throw you a captcha sometimes, but not all and not always early enough.

I did not abuse this, I have observed this when developing a scraper.

Test headless before deploying was my most valuable take away.

I do think they are a good example, however , maybe they ran those less quantifyable brand name campaigns.

There are many reports out there confirming the same.

Dont give the ad networks a carte blanche sometimes they themselves are hijacked by bad operators.

It seems there is very little done a mitigation or prevention of bad traffic and a lot of sending beginner sales persons to the front lines.

I mean, they do provide some estimates for conversion rates, but never will they put that on paper. Where are their numbers for traffic cost even coming from if they do not know?

When they say lets run a test campaign for 1 or 2 k before I commit to 5 times that, I ask them what have my comoetitors done, do you have feedback?( I do, am on friendly terms with competitors) they always say they have no insight(is that so?). All I know that some of them create either zero or so much fake traffic that I have to justify the 400 percent page views month to month to some payment partners.

Well, I have to say though, those little influencers do deliver results.

I have spoken with many of them and they come up with ideas regarding gamification, retention and acquisition being far superior to the ad networks.

They have a community and I would hire some of them on the spot, no need, though, some of them earn my salary many times over.

The ad networks might be ok for flight by night ops like selling viagra copies on porn websites, but they will always be that annoying pop up, I am not sure it they count towards the result if people have ad blockers.

Or let me ask, which businesses can actually convert measurably from ad networks? Assuming life time value of customers being more than 50 usd.

Its always sold as for "brand propagation", an excuse to inform you ahead that no conversion at all will happen.

If you have a fast paces business which relies on large throughput and a constantl flow of new customers it is not very useful.

I know facebook could convert very well, but they will not allow any product.

Would be curious to here, too, as far ad networks go.

There are many affiliates for online casinos, crypto exchanges etc, they usually have a cpa + revshare deal.

They scrap the non converting audience, its vastly more expensive, but I imagine converting an impression from an add somewhere on an app or such to a paying depositor with life time values north of 200usd is just not going to be economically viable.

So far, all I have spoken to ended up a cpm model slightly shuffled.

That is a multi party collaborarion problem.

Some affiliates make it very simple, affiliate links. Sure , there are some fraudulent tricks, on both sides, but it is manageable.

The ad networks are never interested in implementing any such thing, they only show how "configurable" their setrings are.

When asked where is the traffic coming from, "sorry,we cant disclose".which is funny, we would see later on anyway, right?

Then other networks provide you with a list upfront.

None or few of them have retargeting.

When asking them straight up "ok , you own my product, how would you use your network to generate conversions rather than impressions?" .It is all suddenly silent.

I have other,more qualified revenues, they are expensive but they deliver on cpa, else they are not paid. But they are the dearest, of course, so my boss is considering alternative revenue channels, even though they are the very least specifc and totally useless. He is the one impressed by rhe config options, I try to assign most spend away from such.

We are speaking spending 5k on some impressions campaign with absolutelly zero sign up or first time depositors.

For this money, you can pay a youtuber with regularly 200k legit views and say 30k my product views to create 8-10 10 minute videos, qhich actually converts.

After speaking to many sales reps for ad networks I have decided to to so,however, these Cpa deals have negative value, say if you provide a service that will or with not have better customer life time value than the cost for the cpa, what would be a useful idea about that?

Did anyone test this? Is it better than operas "vpn"?

Can the user configure various geolocations?

They can decrypt if someone enables backups, so I see no reason they could not read them indeed.

Signal might be the only app unable to read, but even that, I would not trust.

The trickery is not via RTP, it is by other means, which I better not share here, it is a common marketing strategy. Rest assured, there is no tricks with rtp, but the tricks in use are morally not exactly better than that, the industry insiders im high enough positions know. And of course the streamers.

The only difference on rtp between settings in the new rtp setting for Germany. Even this is not configurable by the operator. No casino can access any rtp settings from game play providers, I work with them every day. Especially on player level sounds absolutely impossible for any reputable provider. I am signing the contracts and implementing the bonus engines etc. It is unheard of in the regulated market.

I would be surprised if this were true, kindly list the providers which do that, I will be happy to eat my words.

Stake started out at bitcointalk with the socalled original dice games, this then gree into a new era of games usually and still not provided by the classic game play providers. These games are now also available as a nodeJS package for sale.

However, many of their games are from the classic providers.

This comments is unfairly downvoted.

I am a head of operations in an online casino. I am responsible for gameplay provider integrations, psp integrations and many things more.

The slots rtp is absolutely set by the game play providers, even the aggregators just pass it on. It is not configurable in any way, not on user level, not on casino operator level, it is always global scope.

The game play providers earn by rev share, they are the top of the food chain and it would be economical suicide to provide different APIs, they have some settings depending on some GEOs, but these are things like no auto play, stake limits etc.

Any regulated casino is using these, the audience is not naive, of course, there are some fly by night operators using pirate games, but this gets detected fast and is often the reason for these casinos having bad rep online, amongst affiliates who will not have them listed etc. These are operated by incompetent people.

Yet another time Germany needs external intervention measures to get in line.

Time and time again, history has proven everywhere that if the population does not keep their politicians in line, they will get drunk from all the power.The people do not even vote reasonably, so it is very difficult.

Have these lawmakers ever presented good results which can be attributed to their work?

Wow, this is incredible, this would be as if in fintech you let customers change their data of the onboaring information without checking again.

That is in the US, though.

Maybe in the UK too, but no in the EU,I think Sweden or Norway have total transparency on tax returns etc, though.

Or just say some percentage is a bonus or equity. And especially, ask them for what you want anyway.

I have guessed too low a couple times before, so now I simply go for current rate *1.5 and see if it sticks.

Everyone who says "I have nothing to hide" is a bold faced liar.

Porn browsing history,bank credentials, intimacy,that one drug fueled party you wish didnt happened,medical records, own kids images, hell, people do not even speak about their salaries.

The only ones worse than these are the people saying "If you do not have anything to hide".

No, thanks. If you want to share your things with the world and governments and private companies, go ahead, but leave me alone.

Well,but a consistent estimate of millions of results and then showing 400 is a rather bad estimate. If the search results would be as bad as the estimates, you would have no business.

It seems like the high numbers are displayed to mislead about the speed and efficiency of the search, google knows no human will go through 10 thousands of result pages. And ads are only sold for page 1.