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 tangomargarine on Wednesday August 10 2016, @03:06PM
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?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"