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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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It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
(Score: 2) by hash14 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @10:40PM
You make it sound simple, but it's rarely so. There are a lot of people on Facebook (maybe even a majority) who wish they weren't on it but are because of
The fact is, when a service or technology becomes so ubiquitous that it's so difficult to avoid using, there _has_ to be some sort of regulation over it and what they are allowed to do. And there isn't any regulation over Facebook currently - our current best hope is that the EU will enforce some upon it and require that they enforce them globally. Not that this doesn't create a sticky situation either, but for entirely different reasons.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Thursday August 11 2016, @12:07AM
social pressures (from friends, family, etc.)
This isn't a reason to use Facebook, and just shows that the people who succumb to it are weak-minded. I have very little sympathy for sniveling cowards, especially since the repercussions of going against these "social pressures" are almost certainly negligible at best. Grow a spine, or people will walk right over you even on matters other than Facebook.
work requirement
This one is more serious. Quit or don't take the job. I expect that the number of jobs that actually require you to use Facebook is low, and no one ever said that sticking to your principles is always easy.
other technical needs and requirements (e.g. groups which only collaborate via Facebook or publications which are likewise only made available through that medium)
Don't join those groups and don't bother with those publications. If they're not going to do the work required to use a different website that actually respects users, they're likely not worth bothering with anyway.
not to mention that actions others take on Facebook can also leak information about you, like when common contacts upload their information and now Facebook has your phone number, address, call and text history, etc.
Try to refrain from giving your personal information to morons who don't care about privacy. Certainly don't text them, and don't have a cellphone.
It doesn't matter how many regulations you create. If people don't start caring about privacy and anonymity and standing up for such principles, then history will continue to repeat itself. But as it is, even the flimsiest conveniences are enough to convince the ignorant majority to discard their privacy in exchange for shiny goodies.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday August 11 2016, @10:58AM
Facebook is not difficult to avoid, but people who say 'oh, I wish I wasn't on Facebook but it's so hard to avoid' are part of the problem. The value of being on Facebook is entirely due to network effects. If more people with disposable income said 'I won't use Facebook' then there's a big incentive for companies to use other channels to reach customers. If more than a few percent in a social group refuse to use Facebook, then there's a big incentive to use something else to communicate.
I have no Facebook account, and I have never had a Facebook account (though I do get fairly frequent calls from their recruiters, so it seems to not even be a blocker to employment at Facebook itself) and I get fed up with people who, by having a Facebook account, are guilty of applying pressure for other people to join complaining that there is pressure to join.
sudo mod me up