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Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures. (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't really use facebook anymore so couldn't care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So they're essentially admitting that their advertisements are indistinguishable from your friend's posts which are the actual reason you visit the site in the first place. It doesn't matter anyway anymore. Facebook has buried friends list content among absolute bullshit you have zero desire to see. I visited a while ago and 99% of what I was shown was ridiculous groups I tried to block. But there are millions of them. You can block a thousand groups and there's 999 thousand more that are just like it, waiting to take their place. Facebook is supposed to have this super algorithm that determines what users want to see. If that's the case, why are they incapable of detecting that I am actively opposed to certain types of content? Maybe they think they're going to outrage me enough to engage on this bullshit? Nah, I'll just leave. Bye, fuck-faces.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The algo doesn't determine what YOU want to see, it's to determine what the ADVERTISERS want to market themselves to.