u/nns261997

I've been digging into whitelisting/usage-rights deals and it looks like nobody on the creator side actually checks whether brands stop running ads when the paid window expires. Brands have whole tools to track this internally while [UGC]creators have a spreadsheet at best.

I'm genuinely curious about:

• How do you track when each deal's usage window ends?
• Have you ever caught a brand running your stuff past expiry? How'd you find out?
• Did you do anything about it, or was it not worth the hassle?

I'll manually check the Meta Ad Library for the first few people who reply with a brand name + expiry date and tell you if anything's still live. Free, no catch.

I want to see how common this is.

I have moved out of Canada for over a year now. The only reason I kept my account with them active is because I wanted to pay off the remaining balance for my device. Which I was paying regularly every month until the past couple months. They charged me over $700 (788) to be precise. I am in no position to pay this much. They have already suspended my account and are threatening me over email to pass my profile over to recovery agency.

What do I do in this case? I am not even in the country anymore and feel helpless.

As the title suggests, I have an interview coming up and it is about debugging a Python repo for 45min.

I just wanna be prepared for it so that nothing catches me off guard. Any help/tips/hacks are appreciated as this is one interview that I have landed after a long painful search and I really want the job (more like a make or break situation for me). The high stakes and nervousness is getting to me. Any advice is golden. Thanks.

My timeline for context:

1. 2015 - 2019: Got my undergrad degree in Engineering (India)
2. 2019-2022: Secured a SWE job thru campus placement (India)
3. 2022-2023: Pursued masters degree in Comp Sci in Canada
4. 2023-2025: struggled to secure a job. Freelanced - Tutoring/Data Annotation projects on Outlier
5. 2025-2026: Secured my first FT FullStack Engineer role in Dubai and got laid off after only 7 months.
6. Present: Struggling to find a role anywhere.

Seems like everybody is now a career guide and can magically get you interview calls by just using their extension or their goddamn vibe-coded AI platform.

The number of people preying on desperate jobseekers is increasing day by day. There is a special place in hell for such people I hope.

Let’s all report such people for misleading/misinformation. That’s the least we can do for ourselves.

Or do you guys have a better suggestion? I am all ears.

My thoughts and wishes with fellow jobseekers.