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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: 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