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My crazy idea to p**s off spammers

The Next Web

The problem with spam is that it is so easy to send a lot of it, and you only need a few fools to buy your stuff to make a buck. For less than $10 you can spam 40 million email addresses. But the fact of the matter is that as we get smarter about filtering spam, spammers get better at reaching more of us, for less money.

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TikTok’s comment sections are being flooded with copy-pasted Christian messages

Fast Company Tech

Others follow the same script: Jesus died for our sins, weve been given the Holy Spirit, and now its our job to evangelize. But the sudden wave of Christian spam is wearing on some users. Some even admit to being copy-pasted, though the origin of the trend remains unclear.

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3 useful tips to help your early stage startup acquire paying enterprise customers

The Next Web

At Scripted , we’ve been able to acquire almost 1,000 paying business customers without hiring a single outside sales representative. This article is intended for enterprise startups that want to get their first few high-caliber customers without having to burn through cash and resources hiring salespeople.

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On Alert: Signs that Your WordPress Site Has Been Hacked

Byte Technology

It may have been a large-scale malware attack, or some nefarious lone individual may have inserted files and scripts onto your server or hijacked your site’s emails or search results. Then they add bad links to your site that direct users to spam pages. This usually garners a good bit of spam accounts which are easy to delete.

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You're an Accidental Spammer: What Do You Do When You've Been Hacked? (Digital Dispatches from the desk of Gavin Clabaugh)

NTEN

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. The names have been changed to protect the paranoid.

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Pipe Up: How to Get More Comments on Your WordPress Posts

Byte Technology

Each time someone leaves a remark, the server has to run a PHP script, and when multiple visitors are commenting concurrently it can put burden on the host and slow the entire site down considerably. You’ll still effectively block spam, and you’ll be brought into closer interaction with your users.

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QuickVid uses AI to generate short-form videos, complete with voiceovers

TechCrunch

Given as little as a single word, QuickVid chooses a background video from a library, writes a script and keywords, overlays images generated by DALL-E 2 and adds a synthetic voiceover and background music from YouTube’s royalty-free music library. Moderation and spam.