Recent content by Moxiepac

Short answer: yes, YouTube does monetize AI-generated cinematic content, but there's a real gap between what the policy says and how the review process actually behaves. The policy itself is clear enough. YouTube doesn't ban AI content from YPP. What it bans is inauthentic, mass-produced, or...

I land somewhere in the middle on this. I don't think the bubble bursts the way dot-com did, but a lot of AI wrappers are going to die once the underlying models just absorb their features. I tried one of those AI SEO content tools earlier this year and half of what it sold as 'premium' showed...

I've been around phone farms a bit, and the short version is: the concept works, the maths usually doesn't. Panther28's point is basically the core of it. The platforms don't just look at the device or the IP anymore - they score hundreds of signals: device fingerprints, touch behaviour, how...

Been there with that exact loop. Two weeks of touching everything and finishing nothing is basically a rite of passage with a first store. Here's the order that finally got me traction: first, pick ONE product to be your hero and nail the offer around it — headline, price point, what makes it...

JamesW9C's dead target checker is a brilliant shout, I'd vote for that one. I've bought a few verified lists over the years and the decay is brutal, honestly about a quarter of the targets on a week-old list were already dead by the time I got around to them. And my hand-rolled scripts always...

Best advice I ever got didn't come from a course, it came from an agency owner I freelanced for early on. He told me: "you're writing hundreds of words on service pages nobody reads, but you're leaving every review unanswered - that's where the real content gap is." So I started replying to...

Good thread. My most surprising one was the opposite of building anything new. I had a niche blog where three separate posts were all targeting closely related long-tail keywords, basically cannibalising each other. None of them could break into the top 5, and I kept assuming I just needed more...

Mostly agree, but I'd add a nuance to your three things — being first is actually the least important of them in practice. Most of the people making real money right now weren't first to anything. They were second, third, or fiftieth, but they came in with a different angle. Dropshipping didn't...

I wouldn't touch the VM + VPN review idea with a ten-foot pole, especially since this account pays your bills. Fiverr's detection has gotten noticeably sharper over the last couple of years — it's not just IP they're looking at, it's device fingerprints, buyer behavior patterns, even how the...

Seeing a lot of "invest it in X" answers in this thread, but I'll echo what ForeverScrnd said — the real question is what you already know how to do. €85k isn't "start a business" money in most online verticals, it's "buy yourself 18 months of runway and test cheap" money. I watched a friend do...

One of the best moves I made on a mid-size affiliate site last year was actually to stop publishing for a month. Traffic had flatlined despite us adding around 10 posts a week, so we pruned 40 thin posts, merged a few that were competing for the same keywords, and rewrote the intros and internal...

Some good takes in here already, so I'll add my angle. Anilagra-wal003's point is the one that matters most: test the offer before you spend anything meaningful on the presentation. Renting the sports car and building out a full funnel before you know the offer converts is the most expensive...

Honestly mate, you're fighting an arms race you can't win by chasing the next patched browser — fingerprint.com is a detection vendor, so every public patch becomes a signature they learn within weeks. That's actually why you pass on day one and start seeing "browser tampering" later: the patch...

Honestly, IM Dude hit the nail on the head — don't resign and hope the internet pays the bills. That stable bank job is actually your biggest unfair advantage here: you can experiment for a couple of years with zero pressure, because the rent is covered either way. Most people who try to "make...

I've been on both sides of this, and honestly the 100% upfront-or-nothing stance and the deliver-first-and-hope stance are both a bit extreme. For client work where demanding everything upfront would scare people off, milestone billing is the sweet spot: 50% to start, 50% before the final files...