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Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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Post by froindt »

Spooks wrote: post #26
froindt wrote: post #14

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I experience the same thing and it's really frustrating. I refuse to install Facebook applications on my phone, and they've needlessly crippled their mobile site (disabling messages except mbasic.facebook.com among many other things). If I so much as check a notification then go back to the newsfeed, it's different content and hit/miss as to whether I can find the top post again.

after them crippling their mobile site I deleted facebook, it was not needed... though I just replaced it with whatsapp or hangouts (really hard to get my friends on anything else)

Their site would literally work just fine as mobile site. It wouldn't give them as much data.

Years ago I had the app installed. The fact that they wanted not one, but two hugely bloated apps on my phone is the reason they haven't been on my phone in many years.

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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Post by throwthis153 »

jessriedel wrote: post #149
electic wrote: post #56

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The greatest thing I did was delete Facebook off my phone. Here are the benefits I discovered: - I didn't miss anything. Turns out there wasn't any real quality content on there anyway. - My battery lasts 2x longer. - I seem to be happier. No joke. With all the rage articles and click bait headlines gone, I am far more happier. - I am way more informed now. I visit allsides.com and get the news there. I quickly get u…

Anyone know how to block a particular website like FB on Android without being rooted or signing up for a subscription to some security or parental-control app? A google search just turns up a million people recommending editing the host file with ES File Explorer (which doesn't work unless you're rooted) or using the TrendMicro Mobile Security app (which requires a subscription). Why in the hell is this so hard?

I think if use Firefox you can get a variant of the StayFocusd extension.

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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Post by gt_ »

electic wrote: post #56
propman wrote: post #32

Facebook has become almost completely useless to me yet I waste so much time on it every day. No one posts anything on it except like 3 guys who post 10 times a day that I barely know yet find their extremist political posts mind numbingly amusing. The news on there is trash, I much prefer the WSJ and if I want sensationalist things I'll go to Reddit and my tastes are more niche now so I have some forums I visit occa…

The greatest thing I did was delete Facebook off my phone. Here are the benefits I discovered: - I didn't miss anything. Turns out there wasn't any real quality content on there anyway. - My battery lasts 2x longer. - I seem to be happier. No joke. With all the rage articles and click bait headlines gone, I am far more happier. - I am way more informed now. I visit allsides.com and get the news there. I quickly get u…

Same experience here with Facebook. This is a little off-topic, but, given the common ground, I visited Allsides.com and it was an interesting experience. I expected to like it, but it felt more like being a 3rd wheel watching a couple argue while both of them made the problem worse. Sigh.

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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Post by shifte »

throwthis153 wrote: post #152
jessriedel wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone know how to block a particular website like FB on Android without being rooted or signing up for a subscription to some security or parental-control app? A google search just turns up a million people recommending editing the host file with ES File Explorer (which doesn't work unless you're rooted) or using the TrendMicro Mobile Security app (which requires a subscription). Why in the hell is this so hard?

I think if use Firefox you can get a variant of the StayFocusd extension.

If you don't want the overhead of another extension, a quick win is to add this to your `/etc/hosts`:

    127.0.0.1	facebook.com
    127.0.0.1	www.facebook.com
After a week you'll completely forget you have facebook.

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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Post by _delirium »

adjkant wrote: post #59
throwaway613834 wrote: post #53

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> I've yet to have anyone mention something with a "didn't you see that on Facebook?" Any chance this is because you don't know what you've missed, and hence you don't talk to people about them?

Anecdotal, but the only time I've ever hear that phrase in the past 3 years is for my college meme group (one of the few reasons I am still on Facebook). As far as I know, nothing happens on Facebook for anyone under 25. As you get older, life event announcements are about the only thing I can imagine would be useful.

It's used a surprising amount for academic discussion in my field, especially more informal stuff like which conferences to submit to or follow-ups to recent controversies. Basically the discussions that 10 years ago would've happened on a mailing list, or in the comments on a prominent person's blog. Some of that also happens on Twitter, but a somewhat different subset of discussions go there.

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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Post by Groxx »

jessriedel wrote: post #149
electic wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The greatest thing I did was delete Facebook off my phone. Here are the benefits I discovered: - I didn't miss anything. Turns out there wasn't any real quality content on there anyway. - My battery lasts 2x longer. - I seem to be happier. No joke. With all the rage articles and click bait headlines gone, I am far more happier. - I am way more informed now. I visit allsides.com and get the news there. I quickly get u…

Anyone know how to block a particular website like FB on Android without being rooted or signing up for a subscription to some security or parental-control app? A google search just turns up a million people recommending editing the host file with ES File Explorer (which doesn't work unless you're rooted) or using the TrendMicro Mobile Security app (which requires a subscription). Why in the hell is this so hard?

There are some site-blocking hosted-on-the-device VPNs on Android. I haven't found any I'd be comfortable recommending though - gotta find an open source one I can reasonably audit and isn't terrible :|

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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Post by electic »

gt_ wrote: post #153
electic wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The greatest thing I did was delete Facebook off my phone. Here are the benefits I discovered: - I didn't miss anything. Turns out there wasn't any real quality content on there anyway. - My battery lasts 2x longer. - I seem to be happier. No joke. With all the rage articles and click bait headlines gone, I am far more happier. - I am way more informed now. I visit allsides.com and get the news there. I quickly get u…

Same experience here with Facebook. This is a little off-topic, but, given the common ground, I visited Allsides.com and it was an interesting experience. I expected to like it, but it felt more like being a 3rd wheel watching a couple argue while both of them made the problem worse. Sigh.

Agree, you are kind of watching from the outside inside. I end up mostly focusing on center stories. But being on the site, it really hits you just how bad the media has become. No one, it seems, listed to John Stewart when he appeared on Crossfire. Instead, the morphed the whole network into Crossfire. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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Post by beager »

melq wrote: post #147
rsp1984 wrote: post #133

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Google doesn't try to suck up all your time it just tries to give you what you want when you want it Yea, and spy you out completely in the process, then sell your data to the highest bidder. Can't decide if I'm more creeped out by FB or big G.

Wonder who knows more about us at this point, FB or Google?

Google has built ad products on data about what you want, and Facebook has built ad products on data about who you are, which are both natural extensions of the data they receive in order to deliver you their core service. Which constitutes more data or a creepier amount, unsure. But I’m more wary of services that are mashing that data together to get a fuller picture of you.

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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Post by Spooky23 »

propman wrote: post #32

Facebook has become almost completely useless to me yet I waste so much time on it every day. No one posts anything on it except like 3 guys who post 10 times a day that I barely know yet find their extremist political posts mind numbingly amusing. The news on there is trash, I much prefer the WSJ and if I want sensationalist things I'll go to Reddit and my tastes are more niche now so I have some forums I visit occa…

My computers have the Facebook domains blocked in their hostfiles.

Best decision I’ve made. Just make sure not to logout or Facebook will hammer your email to entice you back in.

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