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
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Capt. Obvious on Wednesday August 10 2016, @04:06AM
I thought that the amount Facebook made from explicit ads paled in comparison to the amount they charged any companies with more than 100 fans/friends/whatever to have their posts not get rerouted to dev/null. Which is also ad revenue.