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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: 1) by anubi on Wednesday August 10 2016, @09:05AM
And the more invasive they become, the more I will avoid it.
By all means, they are not the first website I refused to have anything to do with because they wanted too much personal information.
As long as I am not *required* to have a FB account, then I guess my rights are not violated as long as I have the right to say "decline to accept your offer" .
What does concern me is if employers looking at FB accounts as a "plus" for employment, which I suspect, but cannot prove, that some do. My own belief is that a FB account demonstrates you are one to put yourself on the line to meet social expectations of others, even if your gullibility to do as you are told places you at risk.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 10 2016, @09:45AM
Speaking for myself, I'd rather stack the selves in supermarket for a living than work for an employer who expects me to make public my private life (or to waste my time pretending I'm the good social puppy he expects me to be).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday August 10 2016, @10:15AM
I also felt very uncomfortable "spilling my beans" all over social media.
I don't mind doing it here so much, as no-one here is much interested in exactly my legal name, date of birth, and who I am socializing with, when, and what kinda stuff I buy.
I see this place more like the old gentlemen's club, where people of like interests gather to shoot the bull over their life experiences, which are quite similar to mine. I would much rather read someone relating his experiences on the job or hobby than spending endless hours watching some grown man kick some ball on TV. To me, that has all the fascination of watching someone assemble and solder together a S-100 memory board. Especially if I am offered the opportunity to watch this happening every week!
I feel I have probably sacrificed many job opportunities by my not being on FB, LinkedIn, and other social media to advertise my availability.
So, here I sit, typing on SN, and making backyard sinks by salvaging old washing machines.
50 years of experience in electronics, since the vacuum tube days, and my experiences seem to benefit no-one but me. Oh well... I'll have another beer.
I can only wonder how much of America's engineering talent is on welfare, while the Government ( who has the advantage of paying the bills by "increasing the debt ceiling") pays the big bucks for the management skills to replace the engineers with H1-B and the like. Most of my cohorts in Aerospace simply retired, never to work again. The one young guy I knew went to work as a counterman for a local electronics parts house, which is now out of business, and I have lost track of him.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday August 10 2016, @11:32AM
eevblog.com [eevblog.com]? The bloke also has a channel on youtube [youtube.com], seems quite popular. Give it a try, even only for the fun of hearing some modern Aussie accent.
Components are quite cheap. Why don't you design some gadgets, just for the fun? Maybe it will lead you somewhere.
I mean, look... instructables.com and perhaps others. There are lotsa hobby makers in this world, small and perhaps basic projects can be fun and sometimes useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford