The intent is that it was customer money. There is a fiduciary duty. They have separate custodial accounts for customer funds. They did not separate funds. It was clear as day.
We used Braintree and during the time they were bought out by PayPal and all th terrible PayPal support was integrated. We could never reach a live person at Braintree again and ended up switching processors.
It's scary to think a processor can't answer a phone call but hold your entire business' money in their hands.
I run $1,000's if not $10,000's a day in FB ads. I can confirm we've all known this for quite a long time.
Our general rule is if the product doesn't have broad appeal, you don't run it on FB.
My running theory on all ad networks is pretty simple. There are a very small subset of users, 25%-30%, of people who are regular purchasers and these companies know that based on conversion data. They generally just throw your ad in front of these people and let it ride.
It should be. I was at a talk where they said Envoy was and I believe that Istio is coming soon. From what I remember, Envoy is what you need to plugin to bridge your infrastructure.
Right? I feel like this article was just another way to get publicity and social traffic to his domain. Anyone worth their salt would know he's probably stuck in the "Google Sandbox" https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-sandbox/