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It really isn't worth the effort. You need to manually unlike each page individually. There is no way to unsubscribe from multiple sources individually. Once y

It really isn't worth the effort. You need to manually unlike each page individually. There is no way to unsubscribe from multiple sources individually. Once you have unsubscribed, your newsfeed will be wonderfully straightforward. After a few days it will be cluttered with sponsored likes. I assume this is however long the batch process takes to catch up. I only go on Facebook to respond to invites at this point. I stopped going on because their mobile app is literally the worst software I've ever installed on my phone though. It's huge and bloated, and it doesn't even include messaging, which they broke out to another app for god-knows-what reason.

takno 11y ago
I've found that as long as I go to "I don't want to see posts from this page" on every single sponsored link, they stopped appearing at all fairly quickly. No defence of the app though - I strictly use the mobile website. The separate chat app is actually pretty useful for that reason
jkaunisv1 11y ago
Also the mobile app listens to what you say and targets ads appropriately (and who knows what else they do with the audio).
- coldpie 11y ago
  This is fascinating. Do you have a source for more information?
  - RobertKerans 11y ago
    You get most of what's been described from social graph + location data + people pattern matching on positives & ignoring the vast number of negatives, so there's not much beyond conspiracy theories ATM.
    - jkaunisv1 11y ago
      Definitely possible. The ones I've heard about foreign languages heard in background seem easiest to test.
  - jkaunisv1 11y ago
    Sorry, no. I've just read a couple anecdotes about it online recently. One was about a TV show in a foreign language playing in the background causing ads in that language. Another was about a guy talking to a friend about an upcoming trip to Vegas, then getting ads for Vegas. I've never wanted to install the app on my phone so I haven't been able to test it myself.
    - Declanomous 11y ago
      I started getting ads in Spanish recently and I was totally confused. I've been watching soccer on Telemundo Deportes recently. I wonder if an app was listening in. I'll have to see which apps of mine are using the microphone. I'm guessing it would have to be the standard Google app though, since I don't have Facebook installed on my phone.
  - gearoidoc 11y ago
    Experienced first hand when I said on a FB Messenger call that I was considering buying a Roomba. Guess what was advertised in my feed later that day? Note: I hadn't so much as googled Roombas before this - it was a totally off hand remark during a call.
- yoz-y 11y ago
  Is this on Android or iOS? Their iOS mobile app does not even ask for permission for microphone. Messenger does, but then I did disable that. Also note that the moment an application on iOS starts using the microphone you have a huge flashing red banner on the top of your screen so they would get caught quite quickly.
haywirez 11y ago
If you're in any kind of a music/art type of scene, invites become completely useless as well. I originally joined FB just to promote my music and organize my contacts in the industry. Now I get 50-100 invites per week to events on continents I've never even visited.

takno 11y ago

I've found that as long as I go to "I don't want to see posts from this page" on every single sponsored link, they stopped appearing at all fairly quickly. No defence of the app though - I strictly use the mobile website. The separate chat app is actually pretty useful for that reason

jkaunisv1 11y ago

Also the mobile app listens to what you say and targets ads appropriately (and who knows what else they do with the audio).

coldpie 11y ago
This is fascinating. Do you have a source for more information?
- RobertKerans 11y ago
  You get most of what's been described from social graph + location data + people pattern matching on positives & ignoring the vast number of negatives, so there's not much beyond conspiracy theories ATM.
  - jkaunisv1 11y ago
    Definitely possible. The ones I've heard about foreign languages heard in background seem easiest to test.
- jkaunisv1 11y ago
  Sorry, no. I've just read a couple anecdotes about it online recently. One was about a TV show in a foreign language playing in the background causing ads in that language. Another was about a guy talking to a friend about an upcoming trip to Vegas, then getting ads for Vegas. I've never wanted to install the app on my phone so I haven't been able to test it myself.
  - Declanomous 11y ago
    I started getting ads in Spanish recently and I was totally confused. I've been watching soccer on Telemundo Deportes recently. I wonder if an app was listening in. I'll have to see which apps of mine are using the microphone. I'm guessing it would have to be the standard Google app though, since I don't have Facebook installed on my phone.
- gearoidoc 11y ago
  Experienced first hand when I said on a FB Messenger call that I was considering buying a Roomba. Guess what was advertised in my feed later that day? Note: I hadn't so much as googled Roombas before this - it was a totally off hand remark during a call.
yoz-y 11y ago
Is this on Android or iOS? Their iOS mobile app does not even ask for permission for microphone. Messenger does, but then I did disable that. Also note that the moment an application on iOS starts using the microphone you have a huge flashing red banner on the top of your screen so they would get caught quite quickly.

haywirez 11y ago

If you're in any kind of a music/art type of scene, invites become completely useless as well. I originally joined FB just to promote my music and organize my contacts in the industry. Now I get 50-100 invites per week to events on continents I've never even visited.