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One of the more frustrating moments in our server-side GTM + Meta Conversions API implementation came after everything appeared to be working. The setup seemed perfect: Events were firing and requests returned 200 OK. Deduplication was functioning correctly. User data was present and match quality had improved. And yet… Meta still refused to optimize. No […]
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