Recent content by sm754

Type of users who use Adblock typically click on NO ads whatsoever, so losses are not so bad as they look. I see lots of niches where the vast majority of the users have Adblock (tech- or gaming-related often), people are competing way too hard for scraps in these areas.

Actually very easy to advertise on Wikipedia if you're smart. You don't even have to contribute anything useful, just have an established account.

Likely, they use a Bayesian model based off many different factors, and prefer false positives to false negatives in terms of strictness. Best way to go about it would be majority of reviews in same locality, IP address same as region, using mobile app, _reading_ lots of reviews (in other...

In business terms, you pick your own ethics in order to avoid getting sued. In moralistic terms, you probably shouldn't be ranking total crap

Google's politics don't strike me as anti-weed. Top results for "cannibis" etc have lots of growing advice and associated stuff, and comparatively few legal/moralistic stuff.

From my experience nowadays, anything running on blog software (even genuine blogs with no commercial interest) tends to be downgraded without heavy social media

Wayback is a godsend. Unfortunately, domain squatters like to do this really annoying thing, where they buy an old domain and stick a catch-all robots.txt on it, which prompts Wayback to hide all the archived content. So a lot of good content tends to be lost to the tides this way (sniff)

For Windows programming, it's been C++ since the early 90s. It's difficult, but it's still the fastest, most powerful, and best documented.

They've also changed the "all comments" page to be, well, basically like the comments on the video; you don't get to scroll through 500 comments effortlessly anymore. It sure makes a lot of data harvesting on YouTube harder.

I don't think so. But, verified accounts are less likely to get manually reviewed (from my experience).

Make sure you're clearing all your cookies. Basic stuff, but just sayin.

I'd think that, ethically, flagging other videos would be fine for vicious inter-SEO wars, but I'd hesitate before blasting off innocent bystanders.

Any laptop nowadays can do those things (SD video at least). Find something sturdy; build quality has gone down over the years.

Sniff the traffic with Wireshark or something. You could probably use rtmpdump if it's a stream.

Yes, but not mainly with IM/SEO.