I wish they would just launch a friggin paid option. No ads, no data collection (for selling, I understand they need some to literally make the site function). I happily pay youtube for an adfree experience and wouldn't balk at doing the same for facebook.
Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads
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Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cherry-picked examples of an incredibly complex system failing (when it succeeds 99% of the time) aren't particularly compelling arguments against the system.
Does it succeed 99% of the time?
It's close to it. I can't remember ever seeing an ad in my newsfeed that was incorrectly labeled with a political affiliation disclaimer. Have you?
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#23I've personally never seen a public company have such a real time insight into the primary revenue driver of the company. In theory this should be the most effecient stock on the market. Even if this is only a portion of the overall revenue, I'm interested to see how this could affect the performance of their stock in the market.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does it succeed 99% of the time?
It's close to it. I can't remember ever seeing an ad in my newsfeed that was incorrectly labeled with a political affiliation disclaimer. Have you?
Your anecdotal experience is completely irrelevant to the statement that you made.
Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's close to it. I can't remember ever seeing an ad in my newsfeed that was incorrectly labeled with a political affiliation disclaimer. Have you?
Your anecdotal experience is completely irrelevant to the statement that you made.
Thank you, captain obvious, and it's actually not. If the system was doing poorly, we'd be able to directly observe it.
Do you have evidence that their political ad detection does poorly?
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#26Apparently yoga studios running ads are often blocked for being "political" or of "national importance". Oh dear, facebook, oh dear. https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_t...
Cherry-picked examples of an incredibly complex system failing (when it succeeds 99% of the time) aren't particularly compelling arguments against the system.
I found it odd that the first thing I searched for returned dozens of different ads that were all flagged for being political when they clearly aren't.
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#27I wish they would just launch a friggin paid option. No ads, no data collection (for selling, I understand they need some to literally make the site function). I happily pay youtube for an adfree experience and wouldn't balk at doing the same for facebook.
How much would you be willing to pay? $10/mo, $50/mo ?
They see more potential in keeping it free and selling you then trying to collect money from you.
Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads
#28Apparently yoga studios running ads are often blocked for being "political" or of "national importance". Oh dear, facebook, oh dear. https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_t...
Cherry-picked examples of an incredibly complex system failing (when it succeeds 99% of the time) aren't particularly compelling arguments against the system.
Hmh.. when i search YOGA I get this >>
"Search results display ads with text that matched your keyword search term. Only ads related to politics or issues of importance are included."
Not sure why it only shows ads related to politics (none of the ads shown are).
And, after searching 2x I was temp banned from using the tool.
Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads
#29This is missing the ads from the company I work for. We do a lot of Facebook advertising. Is it US only? Edit: The link is to political only ads, although this filtering is not exposed in the UI, and when searching for the company I work for I find similarly named companies that are definitely not political. When editing the URL back to " https://www.facebook.com/ads/library" , and searching, it works, although the s…
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#30Soo.. what ads are related to penises
https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_t...
I'm amazed by the quantity of paid trash in Facebook.