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

I for one cannot wait for the American Facebook user to actually sit down and consider whether they pay their ISP $10 a month to be force fed ads in their time line now throughout all videos and the finally put down the 'free' drug that Facebook has become.

Edit: Not just Facebook but social media as a whole.

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

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Post by stevenh » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 7:57 PM UTC

Why are they allowed to monetize so much pirated/freebooted content?

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

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Post by X-Istence » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 7:57 PM UTC

I've noticed that FB started inserting ads about 10 seconds into playing a video. Now when I see the "about to start ad" I just go to the next video and skip it.

Ads before videos just means I won't be watching videos on Facebook.

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Post by njarboe » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 7:58 PM UTC

dirtybirdnj wrote: post #3

I've had a few videos on Facebook recently begin playing, and then 10sec in start to play an ad. I have since stopped watching FB videos.

Imagine all the A/B/C/D/E/F/G testing going on at Facebook. I imagine that they fine tune a lot of things just for you.

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Post by jayess » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 7:59 PM UTC

Facebook is more and more just a cesspool.

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Post by nkrisc » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 7:59 PM UTC

>The company also wants professional creators to post more videos to the site and make the platform a content hub on par with YouTube, a unit of Alphabet Inc.’s Google.

That's interesting, because I've never been able to find a second time a video that popped up in my feed. For my experience, videos on Facebook might as well be ephemeral. forever vanishing the moment my feed refreshes itself automatically.

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Post by dave5104 » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 8:00 PM UTC

vuln wrote: post #4

I for one cannot wait for the American Facebook user to actually sit down and consider whether they pay their ISP $10 a month to be force fed ads in their time line now throughout all videos and the finally put down the 'free' drug that Facebook has become. Edit: Not just Facebook but social media as a whole.

$10 a month? Perhaps you missed a 0 there... Americans pay a lot more per month to watch ads on the Internet.