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Reimagining Ads in the next few years

Checkout  https://ads.lithific.com YouTube has been giving Ads even on the videos that didn't reach 1k subscribers & 4k watch hours. If this is the case people will switch to a platform that doesn't even have any eligibility for monetising ads. Everyone will start their own website and start ads or promotions like done mediocre creators or influencers do

How is money running this world ???

Money is just an illusion. I wonder how our ancestors lived their life hunting, farming. When money came into existence everything turned upside down. I wish there is no money in this world, it has to be only goods-exchange. How can someone decide that a drain cleaner gets £££ and a CEO gets ££££££££. This is total non-sense.

Facebook Bug Bounty $$$$ : Crossposting Live Videos | Facebook Live

In the Facebook Page Settings, you could setup the option for Crossposting Live videos from other pages.  The Attacker's page adds a Page (Victim's Page) for crossposting their videos Victim Page's Admin accepts the approval and the default option is Crossposting videos without further approval The Attacker starts live video and selects Victim's Page in the "Crosspost to more pages" Victim visits the Crossposting page in the Page settings and and removes Attacker's Page Attacker selects "Use camera" and clicks on "Go Live". The Victim's Page starts automatically crossposting the live video of Attacker,  Bug Bounty of $500

How to compose a song and make it a hit, reach more audience

 AR Rahman's & Ilayaraja's Music !! Exciting right?  For song to be a hit there needs to be three components Good Background Music Good Lyrics Good Vocals Good Tune That can make any song a hit. Rahman songs are like that, they have all the above mentione. If you have listened to Sasivadane you'll instantly fall in love with it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDNVisXNqyM The lyrics are a high level and a 20 years guy cannot even understand it. That kind of poetry comes only from a person who vivdly enjoyed reading books and playing with words Rahman composes with more than one raaga in a song. In this song he had used two raagas, Naata and Gambhira Raaga. Playing with the Keyboard keys are one major aspect and improvising is the only success for a song to be hit.  More importantly the song needs to have catchy lyrics.

Future of YouTube Creators

The COVID has made everyone's life just boring and all the people are becoming mediocre.  Everyone even the news or TV hosts are creating channel on YouTube just to pay their EMIs as they have no source of income as of now since the shut down of the channels. For every 1M views the creators get atleast 2 laksh. That's a lot of sum. Isn't it? Now that everyone is creating channels just to make money whethe the video is good or bad they just upload it. Just to make money. Earlier people used to upload only to showcase their talent and get recognized for their work Now coming to my perception how I view the future of YT Channels. YT is going to delete the channels that is pure non sense. And these users will create their own website hosted on any platform and upload the videos there and then start making revenue from it.

Instagram Bug : $$$$ Mention Bypass | Facebook Bug Bounty

I was testing with the Instagram Lite App. There is major difference in the APIs of the Instagram APp and the Lite App.   Bugs were found by other bug hunters in the Facebook and its Lite Version. So I gave a try to the Insta. I was mainly concerned about the privacy of other users, like invading into their privacy and something I enjoy doing. We also love invading into other people private life right? Like who they dated and also love to read their personal messages. In the Instagram App There is Mentions in the Privacy settings of Instagram that have options like: No One. Only followers etc. When the User has set the mentions to No one then any user cannot tag them in the comments of other posts across Insta. But in the Instagram Lite app, You can directly enter the user name of the user and just post the comment. I tags that account. Rewarded $500 , 25 days later since reporting the bug

Fix : Django application deployment fails in AWS ElasticBean

  Django   deployment never fails unless it is at the Database drivers. The required version of mysqlclient isn't found. is the common error you get in  Amazon Web Services  server logs If you are here after reading my pervious post then you must have wasted days while deploying your  Django  app on ElasticBean The only reason of failure could be the installion of the mysql drivers. The regular DB driver that django installs or in your requirement.txt file is mysqlclient You try the below mysql Drivers:  mysql-python mysql-connector-python For my app  mysql-connector-python worked. Go through this site https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/

Fix : AWS ElasticBean Deployment fails for Rails Application

There is always an issue with  Amazon Web Services  ElasticBean while deploying applications and always a scary part. It was a cakewalk on Heroku hosting platform but it's nightmare here and wastes days  The Rails Application   use Puma as default server, recently it has updated to 5.2.2 at the time of writing this post. During the recent deployments to AWS elasticbean all have been failing, The main reason is the Gem File isn't being obeyed.  The specified version of the Puma isn't being instaled by the AWS serves when  A revolution for server I decided to go back to Django again. You can read this post to encounter what all I encountered duint the deployments of Django Application. So going back to Rails. Everything has been installed properly except the Puma server.  I specified 4.3.2 in my Gem File but AWS was installing the 5.2.2. And all the Load Balancers have been showing the status of 502 or 400. The Server health is shown as degraded or severe. Here are the steps

Google Code Jam 2021 - ReverSort

https://codingcompetitions.withgoogle.com/codejam/round/000000000043580a/00000000006d0a5c          

Google Code Jam 2021 Solution - Moons and Umbrellas

Solution to Google Code Jam 2021 First Problem Moons and Umbrellas   Problem can be found here  https://codingcompetitions.withgoogle.com/codejam/round/000000000043580a/00000000006d1145

Making money from Google & Facebook How tough is Bug Bounty?

  Bug Bounty has become the bread and jam for many developers and it is getting tough since the year 2014. Only the hackers with deep research can get through it and those who find XSS in a intellectual way get paid. If you find and IDOR bug they defininetly say it is already know or there are changes or it is an intentional and works as expected. But what's the truth  no one knows or they wantedly close the report. Find a bug which is difficult to exploit by others. The more easy the bug the more easy it is for them to get it rejected and throw nothing at you. But if it is more difficult to reproduce. It would be tougher for them to Reject the report. I have found pretty easy bug and it was told that it is working intented or either they marked it as duplicate.. The truth..??? No one knows. Either they wantedly marked as duplicate just to escape the payment or just it is easy and anyone can find it.

YouTube bug Bypass Banned words.

  In the Settings  of YT Studio.  The Community tab has Advanced Filters  tab, that lets you enter the "Blocked Words".  For example if you enter the word "Hello" and save. Enter the Hello in different styles like "HElLo", and it gets Held for Review. But if you append an emoji it could bypass the filter at the server  and goes for review and gets displayed in the the comment section.

Facebook Page Managers disclosure bug in the comments $$$$

  In the Facebook Page General settings, the section " Page Moderation " allows you to input a list of words that never gets displayed if someone enter them in the comments. But when a Page manager, it may be an analyst, Advertiser enter those words It gets shown in the comments.  Keeping the page managers at risk of their names getting disclosed in the comments section of any post.

Does Google & Facebook share data of the users ?

 Open your Google Chrome in incognito mode and search for e commerce website. Search products like flop flops or T-shirts in it. Now, open your Facebook or Instagram app and experience it... Did you experience it in the news feed.... You see the exact products that you saw in the incognito mode. That's what is happening they are sharing it. No doubt !!!