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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: 3, Interesting) by linuxrocks123 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @05:58AM
Why would this be illegal? All Facebook is doing is collating information it acquired legally. It's not illegal in general to collect information about someone, even if that person would rather you not. You have to do something specifically illegal like trespass, stalk, or be a peeping tom to get on the wrong side of the law.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @12:16PM
You have to do something specifically illegal like trespass, stalk, or be a peeping tom to get on the wrong side of the law.
I don't have a FB account, but most of my friends and family do. I'd occasionally get an invitation mail from FB, every few months or so, but I just ignored those.
Then, one nice day a year or two ago, FB went full retard. Over the course of two days, I got more than two dozen invites: "This $person_you_know is on Facebook, why don't you join?" or something. Each invite "from" a different person I know, from all over the world. Needless to say, the second day of this spam-bombing I set up a filter to throw anything from FB straight to spam. I'm sure that the invites continued, but I didn't bother to check.
Now, that probably still doesn't cross into "illegal" territory, but it's a very dark shade of gray, not to mention creepy and obnoxious. I'm also certain it violates some human right or something, but corps don't seem to be bound to those.
Fuck Facebook and fuck Zuckerberg with a rusty spoon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @12:39PM
Maybe not illegal to the letter (latest paid for interpretation) of the law but a dick move nonetheless... And just like we think people who murder other people are dicks and lock them up for their dickishness, the same should be done to anyone aiding and abetting FB.