Also good to note that even if you were somehow able to block ads on Facebook, that only stops the visible output. The aggressive data collection continues as you scroll and interact with content.
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#172I know this is probably a very naive question, but what is the end goal putting so much effort into getting past ad blockers? Surely, someone with an ad blocker installed is not going to click on their ads and buy the advertised products anyway. I don't really know what I am talking about, but I guess it's all about ad impressions that generate money, but doesn't this strategy end up making less money, because the mo…
Ads are for surveillance as much if not more than they are for money
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#173"What do you do for work?"
"I find ways to defeat adblockers"
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#174I know this is probably a very naive question, but what is the end goal putting so much effort into getting past ad blockers? Surely, someone with an ad blocker installed is not going to click on their ads and buy the advertised products anyway. I don't really know what I am talking about, but I guess it's all about ad impressions that generate money, but doesn't this strategy end up making less money, because the mo…
Ads are for surveillance as much if not more than they are for money
Presumable the ads on Facebook are served by Facebook and they know who you are and what you are doing on Facebook.
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#175Facebook and instagram constantly email me trying to entice me to use the app. As I haven’t used it for years. I think it’s purely to massage their Active Monthly User numbers to show growth.
> I think it’s purely to massage their Active Monthly User numbers to show growth.
I don't think so. They want you to use the App because through the they have way more ways to track you.
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#176I'm more surprised by the fact that people still use Facebook
remember the amazing show "community"? Elroy: “I got a job through LinkedIn.” Annie: “What? That’s crazy! People use LinkedIn?” Elroy: “No, LinkedIn hired me to help figure out why people don’t use it.”
That's an underrated season, imo. Keith David is fantastic.
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#177The only way to keep ads off Facebook is to stop using Facebook.
If you're still using Facebook, it's because you're required to or you're the kind of person who won't be fazed by this.
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#178I know this is probably a very naive question, but what is the end goal putting so much effort into getting past ad blockers? Surely, someone with an ad blocker installed is not going to click on their ads and buy the advertised products anyway. I don't really know what I am talking about, but I guess it's all about ad impressions that generate money, but doesn't this strategy end up making less money, because the mo…
Aren’t ads payed also via „impressions“, like 10k people saw your advertisement so please pay x money?
Partially, yes. Ads are also psychological, and tracked cross-platform. If you see a BMW ad on Facebook, drive by a BMW billboard on the highway, search BMW on Google, and then go buy a BMW, they have ways of fractionally allocating the conversion to the different impressions. It's pretty crazy.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I got caught out by the deprecation/sunsetting of anonymous "old.reddit.com" yesterday It appears to still be up for me. ??
"anonymous" is the key word. old.reddit still works (though it seems to get progressively jankier), but it's now requiring a login.
It was activated for my region yesterday and it did wonders for breaking my reddit addiction.
Then I tried the normal view and ... wow, so many auto-playing video ads disguised as regular posts.
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#180I'm more surprised by the fact that people still use Facebook
Those childish comments are so funny. 3 billion people use Facebook regularly, and there are folks that deem themselves superior to all others who claim "I know nobody who uses Facebook". XD