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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @12:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @12:16PM (#386227)

    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.