For me the correct URL seems to be: https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/ad_settings/?section=... instead of what you have in the gist. (But the script errs on the awaits.)
I've updated the script, try again! :D
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#42What browser is this intended for? The below error comes up on Brave on MacOS. Both most up to date version. VM172:14 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'click') at :14:71 (anonymous) @ VM172:14
I've updated the script, try again! :D
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#43Intresting, for me the link 404's This page isn't available The link may be broken or the Page may have been removed. Check to see if the link that you're trying to open is correct. Go to Accounts Centre also Uncaught SyntaxError: await is only valid in async functions, async generators and modules
I've updated the script, try again! :D
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#44Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
#45What is the motivation to prefer untargeted ads over targeted ones?
Privacy. Though, if you're into privacy, you're probably not on Facebook. But a good number of people find the kind of hyper-targeted advertising enabled by the tech industry very creepy. Anything more granular than a billboard gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Interesting, I guess most people are unaware that running these scripts does not stop the data from being collected, because Facebook is not the one collecting most of it.
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#46Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
#47Cool script. My hack is to live in a country where the local language is not my own, and not the one I have set in my Facebook settings. As a result, Facebook rarely has advertisements that can target me, because my language has been filtered out by the advertisers. When one does appear, it’s nearly always in the local language, so I’m kind of deaf to it and I’m not going to actively respond to anyway. Luckily they h…
My hack is to live in a country that forces Facebook to give me an opt-out, and then I click "no" when Facebook asks.
What country has this? Sounds great.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
And you are using the term "gangstalk", which refers to a specific symptom of mental illness, ironically?
& feeling paranoia is a garantee of having mental disease?
No, but the phrase "gangstalk" refers to a specific kind of persecutory delusion.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Targeted ads can basically gangstalk you and it's psychologically uncomfortable
And you are using the term "gangstalk", which refers to a specific symptom of mental illness, ironically?
No, I mean the action of gangstalking
If a bunch of people analyze your psychology and then coordinate to use what they find to scare you, that's gangstalking
When an AI does it.... it's expected advertising behavior?
I don't like that double standard. Gangstalking is gangstalking.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Privacy. Though, if you're into privacy, you're probably not on Facebook. But a good number of people find the kind of hyper-targeted advertising enabled by the tech industry very creepy. Anything more granular than a billboard gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Interesting, I guess most people are unaware that running these scripts does not stop the data from being collected, because Facebook is not the one collecting most of it.
Yes, this script disrupts the non-Facebook actors collecting most of the data
It cuts off a refinement step