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Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

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Re: Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

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Post by john___matrix »

I wonder if it'll be a obscurely named toggle hidden away in a settings sub page somewhere just so they can say they've offered the option.

Unlikely of course but it would be nice if they were turned off by default and they offered users the option to turn them on with a disclaimer about how inaccurate and shady many of them are.

Re: Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

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Post by blocked_again »

john___matrix wrote: post #4

I wonder if it'll be a obscurely named toggle hidden away in a settings sub page somewhere just so they can say they've offered the option. Unlikely of course but it would be nice if they were turned off by default and they offered users the option to turn them on with a disclaimer about how inaccurate and shady many of them are.

> Unlikely of course but it would be nice if they were turned off by default

This means the revenue KPI of the ads team would go down right? So will never happen.

Re: Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

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Post by buybackoff »

john___matrix wrote: post #4

I wonder if it'll be a obscurely named toggle hidden away in a settings sub page somewhere just so they can say they've offered the option. Unlikely of course but it would be nice if they were turned off by default and they offered users the option to turn them on with a disclaimer about how inaccurate and shady many of them are.

Not only hidden away, but one will have to set this option every time the page refreshes, as with time ordering of timeline. That latter behavior nullified FB usability for me, not using for 2+ years and happy. Every time when come back just run away scary of the political trash bin it has become.

Re: Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

nyanpasu64 wrote: post #3

I want the ability to turn off political non-advertisement posts.

I'm surprised we don't get more control over our "feeds" on some platforms - it would be useful signal for advertisers I'd imagine, so there's a win-win aspect.

On Reddit I'd like to filter out (ie remove) all posts with animal pictures.

I keep coming back to Slashdot's model of democratised curation.

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