'Facebook baby ads taunted me after stillborn'
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#2> Facebook said it was caused by a bug in the system that has now been fixed.
Funny how problems like these are attributed euphemistically to "bugs" that are "fixed" in reporting.
I do not often see journalism incorporating detailed descriptions of computer-related mishaps other than "glitches" [1,2]. It does not help that reporting on these circumstances to journalists may also be mediocre.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/07/2...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/07/08...
Re: 'Facebook baby ads taunted me after stillborn'
#3This sucks. I thought "why not install an adblock," but not everyone thinks like that, and that's fair.
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#4This sucks. I thought "why not install an adblock," but not everyone thinks like that, and that's fair.
That doesn't work on the Facebook app. And then they block you for reporting too many ads. Facebook ads are late 90s era quality.
Not to mention fradulent.
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#5One of my acquaintances/facebook friend's daughter was murdered in Australia and she got ads about "surprising your daughter with this beautiful gift"
It's heart breaking to even think about it.
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#6This sucks. I thought "why not install an adblock," but not everyone thinks like that, and that's fair.
That doesn't work on the Facebook app. And then they block you for reporting too many ads. Facebook ads are late 90s era quality. Not to mention fradulent.
"And then they block you for reporting too many ads."
Glad to see Facebook has the customer's best interests at heart.
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#7> Facebook said it was caused by a bug in the system that has now been fixed. Funny how problems like these are attributed euphemistically to "bugs" that are "fixed" in reporting. I do not often see journalism incorporating detailed descriptions of computer-related mishaps other than "glitches" [1,2]. It does not help that reporting on these circumstances to journalists may also be mediocre. [1] https://www.washingto…
Would it really matter? The root cause would probably sound something like this:
"The user's preferences were ignored because the advert system failed to invalidate the cache during the change, causing the user's previously cached settings to be used. This occurred only for a small set of users, who were in a similar geographic location and were assigned to an experimental cohort to test an updated component of the advert system."
Would anyone understand this? Would anyone care?
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#8My wife had a miscarriage last December; we’ve been getting mailers advertising baby formula for months - one of them was literally an entire box of samples. Turns out we’d both been trying to throw them away before the other one saw them, because it’s kind of soul crushing as a reminder. Thanks, future!
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#9Surely, they also get snail mail related to babies. This is not a technology/Facebook problem.
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#10> Facebook said it was caused by a bug in the system that has now been fixed. Funny how problems like these are attributed euphemistically to "bugs" that are "fixed" in reporting. I do not often see journalism incorporating detailed descriptions of computer-related mishaps other than "glitches" [1,2]. It does not help that reporting on these circumstances to journalists may also be mediocre. [1] https://www.washingto…
Would it really matter? The root cause would probably sound something like this: "The user's preferences were ignored because the advert system failed to invalidate the cache during the change, causing the user's previously cached settings to be used. This occurred only for a small set of users, who were in a similar geographic location and were assigned to an experimental cohort to test an updated component of the a…
I feel like turning this into a technical issue is sleight of hand