Notices by The Autistic Innovator :ri: (autisticinnovator@autistics.life)

I finally got all the product reviews in the right way. Just laser focused for a few hours until I got all 310 published so far, and there's maybe about 200 more left to add. Mostly just reviews from 2023 left. Also want to finish adding store reviews to the reviews page.

There are star ratings on every product now.

On the Shopify store, I had payment icons with visa, mastercard, etc. I don't want to risk the WooCommerce plugins adding trackers. So I put a simple text underneath the add to cart button, "Checkout tracker-free with Stripe, Link, and Apple Pay."

Trying to find every improvement I can make to help sales.

Starvation was really holding me back, and so was eating all that processed food.

My idea machine brain is in maximum idea generation mode because it's fueled with actual healthy food.

To lean into the specialty curation brand I've built for The Autistic Innovator, I made my filters more in-depth to create a Specialty Curated Experience. Added more sensory stims filters, among other things.

Since I have no ability to lie, I created "Originals/Curated" filters for "The Autistic Innovator Originals" and "Specialty Curated". Basically, filters to say I created this and I did not create this.

Today it’s like I’m possessed by the hyperactive part of my ADHD. Having a hard time sitting still. The good thing is, I’m able to channel this rush of energy into tackling the giant mess of laundry in my closet. Wash a load then actually put it away instead of leaving it in the basket in the closet.

The crazy princess self-destruction has begun. Her obsession with destroying me has started draining all her money. Temu and Etsy are taking over the ads. Items advertised went from mostly $14.49 to now the most expensive ones in the store. No scraper bots today, only bots trying to place fraud orders and never making it to the checkout page. Since I’m a black hole, there is no customer list to target with ads, and no data to create look-a-like audiences. It shows the only reason her ads were possibly successful is because it was entirely based on a steady long term harvesting me stream. Without harvesting me the business suffers. Karma has arrived.

Now that in Texas SNAP can’t be used to buy soda and sugary drinks, the 12 pack brand name soda prices dropped from $9 to $5. Energy drink prices also dropped. Candy prices and fruit snacks have all dropped too now that no one can use SNAP to buy candy. I don’t know if chips were included in that SNAP law, but those also dropped. Bags of Lays chips went from $6.46 to $2.50. Family size boxes of brand name cereal went from $7.49 to $4.44.

I’m looking at Walmart’s rollbacks list and 98% is stuff people can no longer buy with SNAP in Texas. Walmart was massively scamming Texas taxpayers with inflated prices paid for with Texas state money.

@cwicseolfor Walmart gets their employees on SNAP, which they benefit from when their employees spend it at Walmart. In Texas, the main beneficiaries of SNAP are single moms.

Frito Lay and the other soda and snack companies are headquartered in Texas. Our Texas SNAP was subsidizing their profits. Using the poor and single moms money from the government in Texas to make their corporations richer. In 2001 a bottle of soda was 75¢, now it’s $2.25.

I don’t enjoy soda, but I drink a lot of it purely for cheap liquid calories.

This makes me very happy. I ran a PageSpeed Insights test on my Shop page. That “No Data” means I have successfully kept Google completely out of my website. Data harvesting Google and data harvesting competitors are getting absolutely nothing.

And with no email list to buy, and no payment processor tracking scripts on my checkout page, no one can get anything.

What’s interesting is the Google slandering me in search with one 2024 Reddit post calling me “dropshipped garbage” has suddenly stopped now that I’m running Reddit ads. I’m sure they also know I’m right that their favorite crazy spoiled princess cannot run ads on Reddit, because there are so many posts about how dangerous their products are. I’ve found the social media loophole, and the one place where the princess cannot buy their authority. It’s also the social media site that will value my genuine human connection and privacy-first anti-tracking values.

The crazy spoiled princess of my industry has spent ungodly amounts of money trying to buy my destruction. They think buying my soul with harvested AI me, will somehow give them a soul, but all the money in the world cannot buy them a soul. When their entire authority is propped up by money, when the money runs out that’s it, the empire falls apart.

I saw that when the princess ran out of money for Google ads. They started disappearing from Google Shopping, their search rankings started dropping, AI overviews previously billboards acted like the princess didn’t exist.

My money is running low, but I still have a 6 year foundation of a consistent reputation I have worked very hard to earn, so even when there isn’t money to work with, I’ll be okay. My foundation was earned.

When their money eventually runs out, they’ll have nothing. I only pity them, despite all they’ve done to me.

I found a loophole muahahaha!

The damn Reddit ads pixel is required because a 0 tracker store would pay a massive premium. But I found a loophole to remain 0 trackers, while also giving Reddit the pixel it wants, so I can have cheap ads.

So in my cookie banner I told people to reject the Reddit ads cookies. Not sure what people who click a Reddit ad think seeing a cookie banner telling them to reject the Reddit ads tracking, so Reddit gets no data.

The last time the pixel fired was 2 hours ago, and that’s when I put up the banner, so everyone is listening to me. All the new clicks I got are off grid. Take that required ads data harvesting! Muahaha!

I’m so glad I can finally run ads on MY terms and not Shopify’s. If I want people to be untrackable on my website they can be. Not being forced to have analytics is wonderful. I prefer not seeing everything. Analytics is nothing but a way to trigger the stress mechanism in your brain so you’ll spend money on Google ads.

Based on the old Shopify store server logs, it was very common for people to stay 15 minutes to 1+ hours looking at products and reading articles. That’s probably what Reddit is seeing from the time they click the ad to the time they switch back to the Reddit app. And unlike Shopify, no one can see what they’re looking at.

What’s interesting is the Reddit ad is now doing even better because I told everyone to reject the Reddit ads trackers. Reddit can’t see anything that happens on the site, but they can see the click on the ad and how long it takes for them to switch back to the Reddit app. I’m assuming people are spending plenty of time on the site since they know absolutely no one can see anything. No analytics, so I can’t even see they are on the site. I’m getting a lot more clicks faster, and my cost per click is consistently getting cheaper.

I’m using the collection that’s been shared a ton of times on Reddit and converted into sales, and using one of my film art photos.

Turns out not tracking people after they click an ad, makes an ad more successful.

So after 2 days of trying, X won’t show my ads to anyone. Grok said the X ads algorithm makes it so only active high engagement accounts with high budgets have ads that perform well, and that since I don’t post that much and I can’t afford a high budget my ad would perform poorly so there is no point. Frustrating.

I got a cold email from a company offering services to go into online forum spaces where neurodivergent people go to seek support amongst each other, and wanted me to pay them to interact with neurodivergent people’s posts and create posts to build brand awareness. That disgusts me. Their paid “service” is everything that is wrong with my industry and extremely predatory. I will not pay someone to turn me into the very thing I despise.

Since the one who pretends to be me the most has been actively retaliating against me for cutting off their endless data harvesting me supply, I added this to the bottom of the article they keep leaving bot comments on.

Now they can stare at this while they watch their bot leave spam comments. 😇

The spam comments started about 1 hour after I posted on Threads that my autistic innovator identity was stolen.

I miss sending those weekly emails. All written like personal letters from me.

But those email marketing software companies need to put records on your domain, and I learned the hard way after Klaviyo used that as an excuse to put trackers on my Shopify store even though I set it to not track people they did it anyway. Klaviyo was also using my weekly emails to train their AI. I trust none of them now.

Oh well. Not worth the risk.

I needed to go return this laptop I bought from Walmart, and the only option was to return it to a store. But the box is too big for my lap on my power wheelchair to get it on and off 2 buses to return it, so I asked if they could do the in home return service on it since I can’t get it to the store myself. Walmart gave me a full refund on the laptop and told me to keep it. Wow.

Unfortunately this laptop is unusable. It has blocked me from installing both Brave and Steam, and will only allow me to download apps from the Microsoft Store.

The only way it will let me install other apps is if I sign into a Microsoft account, which gives them the power to put all their AI, Remote Desktop, and telemetry software I deleted and disabled back on the laptop. Which I do not want. Oh well. At least I got a refund.

@hellomiakoda That happened to me. Sam’s vet planned renewed around the time he died and I didn’t know it, so they sent 3 months of plan payments for a dead cat to collections. I called the debt collector and explained the situation and they said I can dispute it with his cremation records.