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Facebook to Make Ads Harder to Block

posted by n1 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @01:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the selling-everything dept.

DiarrhoeaChaChaCha writes:

Facebook is going to start forcing ads to appear for all users of its desktop website, even if they use ad-blocking software. The social network said on Tuesday that it will change the way advertising is loaded into its desktop website to make its ad units considerably more difficult for ad blockers to detect. “Facebook is ad-supported. Ads are a part of the Facebook experience; they’re not a tack on,” said Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, vice president of Facebook’s ads and business platform.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

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  • (Score: 2) by Capt. Obvious on Wednesday August 10 2016, @03:52AM

    by Capt. Obvious (6089) on Wednesday August 10 2016, @03:52AM (#386108)

    If I'd be FB, I'd be creating (or investing) in the next social platform for the today's kids.

    Nonsense, they don't create the next social platform. They just buy it for billions once it proves itself (e.g. Instagram, WhatsApp.)

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday August 10 2016, @04:29AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 10 2016, @04:29AM (#386117) Journal

    If I'd be FB, I'd be creating (or investing) in the next social platform for the today's kids.

    Nonsense, they don't create the next social platform. They just buy it for billions once it proves itself (e.g. Instagram, WhatsApp.)

    May be good enough if it keeps the generations separated.

    But again, there will be one such platform which will refuse to sell and maybe capture an entire generation. That platform will be the next FB for a while - this is the very process FB rose to prominence.

    There will be no FB-or-equivalent under two circumstances:

    1. the people lose (or fear) the social media; and/or

    2. the computing and network power gets high enough and the prices for it low enough, somebody writes a platform in which "social media" nodes can be created ad-hoc so easily that any kid can install and manage it. No incentive for kids to join a centralized site

      (now, that's an idea)

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    • (Score: 5, Informative) by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @08:21AM

      by Fnord666 (652) on Wednesday August 10 2016, @08:21AM (#386175) Homepage

      the computing and network power gets high enough and the prices for it low enough, somebody writes a platform in which "social media" nodes can be created ad-hoc so easily that any kid can install and manage it. No incentive for kids to join a centralized site

      (now, that's an idea)

      You mean like this one [diasporafoundation.org] was supposed to be?

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 10 2016, @09:47AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 10 2016, @09:47AM (#386195) Journal

        And a bit further, yes.

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Wednesday August 10 2016, @10:02AM

        by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday August 10 2016, @10:02AM (#386198) Journal
        No. Disapora failed to realise that the most important things for any kind of open system like this are a well-defined protocol and a permissively licensed reference implementation (ideally in library form, useable from multiple languages). They instead created a poorly specified ad-hoc protocol and an AGPL reference implementation (a license that basically precludes anyone from looking at the code if they might ever want to implement the protocol).
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        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 10 2016, @03:06PM

          by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 10 2016, @03:06PM (#386279)

          and an AGPL reference implementation (a license that basically precludes anyone from looking at the code if they might ever want to implement the protocol).

          It's basically the GPL with "no seriously, make sure the source is available" tacked on. Why is that so toxic?

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        • (Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @10:44PM

          by Fnord666 (652) on Wednesday August 10 2016, @10:44PM (#386417) Homepage
          To be fair I didn't say it was a successful attempt. :-) OTOH you can learn just as much if not more from a failure than a success.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @07:59PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @07:59PM (#386362)

        back in my day, we just set up a BBS

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:04PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:04PM (#386260) Journal

      That IS an idea. Ad-hoc social media. No way I can build on the concept, but it's definitely a good sounding idea. WTF do we need a Facebook to connect people?