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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, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:56AM
Recall yourself at the age of 14. Would you go to a party with your mum by your side?
(how would a teenager share her/his "virtual private space" with their parents?)
Because the teenagers-of-yesterday-currently-or-soon-to-be-parents invested too much of their life in FB?
If I'd be FB, I'd be creating (or investing) in the next social platform for the today's kids.
Are you sure they don't do it already?
My point? Seems that the taste for social media is going to stay with us for some while, at least sustained by the kids - nasty creatures they are, gregarious and all that (like the S/N crowd) but with an underdeveloped discerning power and not enough knowledge to arrange an alternative virtual space for their own.
Can you fault them?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Capt. Obvious on Wednesday August 10 2016, @03:52AM
Nonsense, they don't create the next social platform. They just buy it for billions once it proves itself (e.g. Instagram, WhatsApp.)
(Score: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday August 10 2016, @04:29AM
May be good enough if it keeps the generations separated.
But again, there will be one such platform which will refuse to sell and maybe capture an entire generation. That platform will be the next FB for a while - this is the very process FB rose to prominence.
There will be no FB-or-equivalent under two circumstances:
the computing and network power gets high enough and the prices for it low enough, somebody writes a platform in which "social media" nodes can be created ad-hoc so easily that any kid can install and manage it. No incentive for kids to join a centralized site
(now, that's an idea)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 5, Informative) by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @08:21AM
the computing and network power gets high enough and the prices for it low enough, somebody writes a platform in which "social media" nodes can be created ad-hoc so easily that any kid can install and manage it. No incentive for kids to join a centralized site
(now, that's an idea)
You mean like this one [diasporafoundation.org] was supposed to be?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 10 2016, @09:47AM
And a bit further, yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Wednesday August 10 2016, @10:02AM
sudo mod me up
(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?"
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @10:44PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @07:59PM
back in my day, we just set up a BBS
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:04PM
That IS an idea. Ad-hoc social media. No way I can build on the concept, but it's definitely a good sounding idea. WTF do we need a Facebook to connect people?
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